
July 2, 2008, Kingsville, Ont. — International news agency CNN featured North American greenhouse tomato marketer Mastronardi Produce/SUNSET
brand on Monday night during the Lou Dobbs Tonight show. With the focus
of the produce industry centered around the Salmonella outbreak, CNN
Correspondent Kitty Pilgrim, sitting in for Lou Dobbs, was quick to
point out the key successes of Mastronardi’s traceability program.
July 2, 2008, Kingsville, Ont. — International news agency CNN featured North American greenhouse tomato marketer Mastronardi Produce/SUNSET brand on Monday night during the Lou Dobbs Tonight show. With the focus of the produce industry centered around the Salmonella outbreak, CNN Correspondent Kitty Pilgrim, sitting in for Lou Dobbs, was quick to point out the key successes of Mastronardi’s traceability program.

Mastronardi’s has in place a fully comprehensive Food Safety Program that encompasses everything from farm to customer. Mastronardi was one of the first in the greenhouse industry to implement a robust traceability program that would require all produce packed under the Sunset label to contain Product Origin information as well as a Farm Code to trace back to which greenhouse it was grown.
Pilgrim went on to praise Mastronardi Produce for their onsite laboratory as one of only a few in the industry. When Pilgrim asked Mastronardi how often were tests conducted on their vegetables, he responded “daily.”
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