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A broken seal and food safety concerns

- Produce Blueprints
Absolutes often sound good. For example, a company that states it has “a zero-tolerance policy for food safety risk” may sound like it has strong leadership and values, and perhaps it does.

Produce Pointers: Inspections must be timely

- Produce Blueprints
The Solution: Call for a government inspection as soon as possible.

The problem with reefer downloads

- Trading Assistance
In many cases the reefer download doesn’t tell us whether the carrier properly controlled air temperatures in transit. We'll look at what a reefer download tells us, and just as importantly, what a reefer download does not tell us.

Perfect downloads, warm pulps, and restricted access

- Trading Assistance
No two carrier claims are identical, but there are recurring themes. For example, when presented with a warm temperature report from a portable recorder, carriers find themselves in an unfavorable position.

Produce Pointers: Negative returns

- Trading Assistance
The Problem: Negative return from price-after-sale (PAS) transaction.

Beware of Technical Traders: A True/False Quiz Part 2

- Trading Assistance
Here’s Part 2 of our quiz on dealing with Technical Traders, which digs deeper into damages.

Beware of Technical Traders: A True/False Quiz Part 1

- Trading Assistance
Are you prepared to do business with a technical trader? Let’s find out with some true/false questions based on Blue Book’s Trading Guidelines.

Liability and cargo claims

- Trading Assistance
You receive damaged product but the carrier's insurance denies the claim. Who has the liability?

DRC to transition CEOs at start of 2021

- General News
Fred Webber plans to retire as CEO of the Fruit and Vegetable Dispute Resolution Corporation at the end of the year, and the new CEO should be familiar to the industry.

Trading Assistance: An employee’s apparent authority

- Trading Assistance
An employee’s actions within the scope of employment are binding under the concept of apparent authority.