Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary IV
We’ve been asked to make available in one place our coverage of the recall by Wm. Bolthouse Farms of certain 100% carrot juice products and the broader implications of this issue for food safety. This piece is updated regularly and will be re-run to include new coverage of this outbreak and issue. We initiated our […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Wal-Mart’s Folly
In response to the Pundit’s skepticism on Wal-Mart’s plan to retool its stores to focus on six demographic target groups, John Shelford, President of Global Berry Farms, sent this note: Right on!!! Stay true to what has made them successful. Low price, huge selection. They will lose their way in the forest with the many […]
More Organic Assumptions
Business Weekhas a cover story on organic food that rehashes many of the key issues such as locally grown vs. nationally shipped, currently splitting the organic world. But there is an assumption in the piece without any evidence: Next time you’re in the supermarket, stop and take a look at Stonyfield Farm yogurt. With its […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XIII
With so much having been written in so short a time, thought it would be helpful to publish a sort of round-up of available material to help people understand the whole situation regarding spinach and this E. coli breakout: The Perishable Pundit itself has dealt extensively with the subject in several major pieces. On September […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary III
We’ve been asked to make available in one place our coverage of the recall by Wm. Bolthouse Farms of certain 100% carrot juice products and the broader implications of this issue for food safety. This piece is updated regularly and will be re-run to include new coverage of this outbreak and issue. We initiated our […]
Dangerous E. coli Found On One Ranch
The United Fresh Produce Association issued the statement we copy below related to the FDA and California Department of Health Services finding on one ranch that supplied Natural Selection Foods some cattle feces that match the strain of E. coli 0157:H7 that was implicated in the spinach recall. Although the whole world will leap to […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Population Inured By Recalls
We mentioned the Nunes green leaf lettuce recall here and heard a lot of praise for the proactive attitude The Nunes Company took in initiating a voluntary recall when nothing had been found on the product: The Nunes Company could not have done a better job with the green leaf. Their response was evocative of […]
PulseNet Redux
We ran it yesterday and it so upsets me that I am going to run it again. Did everybody notice that PulseNet, which is supposed to be protecting our food safety and food security, CLOSES ON THE WEEKEND? Wisconsin public health officials knew they had a serious problem. They also had a responsibility to alert […]
Lobbying For Better Refrigeration
We’ve been dealing a lot with the Bolthouse botulism problem on 100% carrot juice. You can see our coverage right here. Sometimes our industry lobbyists can do the trade the best service by working on issues outside the specific purview of our industry. In light of all the publicity that has been tied to the […]
Nunes Tests Negative
Some great news from The Nunes Company. Independent lab tests of the product have come back negative: Green Leaf Lettuce UpdateReleased: October 10, 2006; 2:00 p.m. Nunes Company President Tom Nunes announced this afternoon that results received by the Company from an independent lab, testing multiple samples of recalled Green Leaf, and water taken Sunday, […]
