PMA/United Interests Differ: Solution Offered
Our piece, In Another Move To Court Retailers, United Fresh Joins FMI And American Meat Institute To Co-Locate Event in 2012, dealt with United’s renewed co-location with FMI for its trade show. We also explored broader issues, including how the industry should fund its lobbying efforts. We speculated as to the plausibility of United getting […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Salad Bars Are Tricky Business
Our piece, Every School Needs A Salad Bar AND A Commitment To Operating It Safely, brought a note from a well known food safety consultant: I just read the Perishable Pundit feature on salad bars and food safety This one is right up my alley… Salad bars (and buffets) are tricky business. Regarding mayonnaise-based salads, […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Bob Strube, Sr. And Pete Purcell: Legacies Of Inspiration
Response to our piece, Pete Purcell: A ‘Diamond’ In The Sky, which we followed up with Pundit’s Mailbag — More Praise For Pete Purcell continues to come in: Pete Purcell — strange how I could not seem to get him off my mind for the past year (yes, the past year!) I was fortunate enough […]
Fructose, Sugar And Bad Science
As our discussion of the “Fresh for Ellen” initiative has evolved, it has come to encompass a broader discussion on specific issues — such as the relative merits of high fructose corn syrup and the threat to good public policy posed by junk science. Our pieces have been many, including these: Plea For Ellen DeGeneres […]
When It’s Not Enough To Just Sell Produce
Well, the Poppa Pundit always said there is nothing harder than to find a way to make an honest living. There are, however, alternatives.
Cell Phones And The Produce Industry
Many years ago, Alan Siger, President at Consumers Produce Co., told the Pundit that the cell phone had transformed his life. Because mistakes could be so expensive when one is dealing with perishable goods, many in the produce industry felt tied to the office, warehouse or packing shed. The Pundit Poppa, working on Hunts Point, […]
“You’ve Restored Our Faith In Humanity” Award
When the Pundit was a teenager, he realized one day on a visit to Manhattan that his wallet was missing. Then he received a call from a stranger advising that he had found the wallet — complete with money and all the cards — on the floor in Grand Central Station, where the Pundit had […]
In Another Move To Court Retailers, United Fresh Joins FMI And American Meat Institute To Co-Locate Event in 2012
For 5 years, from 2004 to 2008, United co-located its trade show with the Food Marketing Institute event, with four shows in Chicago and one show co-located in Las Vegas. United worked hard to sell the value of being in a venue that focused on the bosses of the trade’s largest customers. Rather unceremoniously, the […]
The Great PTI Leadership Let-Down
Our extensive discussion of traceability brought us to our most recent piece, titled Problems Persist With PTI, and this piece brought a response from a man who has been in the forefront of the trade’s traceability efforts, Bruce Peterson. Now running his own consultancy under the name Peterson Insights, Bruce worked on the grower/shipper side […]
Freshway’s Traceability System Worked Like A Charm: FDA And Buyers Don’t Care
With the industry focused on traceability — which we deal with today here and have dealt with for some time — it is worth looking at the way food safety agencies and buyers react when there is both good traceability data and a foodborne illness outbreak. The short answer is they ignore traceability. In this […]
