Pundit’s Mailbag — Food Safety Must Be An Executive Imperative: 24/7/365
Richard Yudin has frequently contributed to the Pundit as with these pieces: Why Don’t American Retailers Just Standardize On EurepGAP? Pundit’s Mailbag — Fairtrade And Harsh Capitalism Pundit’s Mailbag — Poor Management Attitude Leads To Food Safety Failures Banana Import Policies In Europe Defy Logic And Ultimately Hurt Consumers His European perspective and time spent […]
New York Knicks’ Charles Oakley Will Be Cooking Up A Storm At New York Produce Show And Conference
The New York Produce Show and Conference is a serious event where serious people come to educate themselves, network and work toward both personal development and enhancing the bottom lines of the organizations for which they work. Though a life well-lived requires some ice cream, or at least frozen yogurt, along with the main course […]
A FOCUS ON FLAVOR AND AN ALIGNED SUPPLY CHAIN
The Cotton Candy Grape Makes Its American Debut At The New York Produce Show And Conference:
How The Grapery, Mack Multiples And Sainsbury’s Delighted British Consumers And Boosted Sales With A Proprietary Program
The Pandol name carries a lot of history with it for the Pundit. Growing up, we remember the Pandol family and the Prevor family shared a shipper down in Chile and that, in the course of many friendly business dealings, we even had a PACA case that is still a key reference point in PACA […]
A PMA/UNITED MERGER IS UNDER DISCUSSION AGAIN
Would It Make Government Relations More Effective?
Will PMA’s Rebranding Be An Obstacle?
There is always a lot of hub-bub when word leaks out that PMA and United are discussing merger. These discussions have been on again and off again for a long time. The current discussions are a continuation of the effort we discussed here. There is much industry support for a merger this time around. The […]
A Choice Had To Be Made: Which Was The Top Priority: Buying Cheap, Buying Regional Or Buying Safe?
We received more than a few irate contacts when we dared to suggest that the Wal-Mart buyer who bought this produce was focusing on local and regional, not on the highest food safety standards. Of course, everything is relative, and to some, Jensen Farms should be seen as neither local nor small: I think your articles […]
SPECIAL EDITION
The Cantaloupe Crisis:
Audits, Auditors And Food Safety
With 25 people dead and one miscarriage, the horror of the listeriosis outbreak on Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupe from Jensen Farms weighs on the industry. To those in the supply chain that have been implicated, they must rise every day carrying the burden of knowing they were part of this catastrophe. To those not implicated, it […]
Cantaloupe Crisis Discussion To Take Place At New York Produce Show And Conference
With all the benefits of technology, there is something about sitting down face to face that can make it easier to think through industry problems and move toward improving the situation. So at the upcoming edition of The New York Produce Show and Conference, we are going to steal a page from our IDEATION FRESH […]
Vendors Risk Much By Not Standing Up For Food Safety Premiums
It is often useful to look at related industries to see how they handle food safety issues. So, for example, we’ve looked at issues such as pasteurization of nuts in pieces such as these: Pundit Pulse Of The Industry: California Almond Board Point/Counterpoint: Raw Foods Advocates Get Steamed About Pasteurized Almonds Now — after reflecting […]
Cantaloupe Crisis Round-up
Just to help everyone keep track, these are the main pieces we have written about the Cantaloupe situation: October 4: 2011:THE CANTALOUPE CRISIS: The Truth That Dare Not Speak Its Name: The Priority Can Be Safe or The Priority Can Be Local, But It Cannot Be Both October 12, 2011:CANTALOUPE CRISIS ANALYSIS: Key Performance Indicators […]
When A Buyer Is Short Of Product…
Do We Have A Plan To Ensure Food Safety?
The Pundit just had an opportunity to spend a few days at Michigan State University. We’ve gone up every year for some time to lecture and this time we were honored to also have the opportunity to deliver — thanks to the generosity of the Ferris family — the John (Jake) and Maxine Ferris Global […]
