Strict health and safety guidelines for Mexico produce
After problems earlier this month with tomatoes in the United States that carried salmonella, the Dallas Morning News brings us this report about the safety and health restrictions imposed on produce plants that harvest and package south of the border.
"Glenn Fry helps run Taylor Farms de Mexico's new $14-million plant [in San Jose Iturbide, Mexico]. He picked the land where it sits and designed just about every facet of it, down to the statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe at the entrance and the jacaranda and palm trees."
" 'In the United States you can stumble once, two, three times and still survive,' Mr. Fry says he tells his workers. 'Not in Mexico. Because of a perception problem, all you need is one problem to destroy your entire operation.' "
Read the report, which also includes a great video dispatch, here...
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City
Photo: A tomato vendor waits for customers at the Central de Abastos market in Mexico City. Tomatoes stopped from shipment across the U.S. border are flooding markets in Mexico City. Credit: Eduardo Verdugo / Associated Press
