COSTCO RAMPS UP PRODUCE SAFETY AUDITS

Costco Wholesale Corp.’s fresh produce safety audits are running far ahead of previous years as the warehouse chain scales up efforts to ensure E. coli, salmonella and other pathogens don’t contaminate the food it sells, a company official said during the Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit held in Atlanta, GA earlier this month. Last year, Costco received about 4,700 safety audits from its produce suppliers, and “we’ve been tracking way ahead of that number this past year,” said Milinda Dwyer, who oversees Costco’s produce supplier audits.
Source: The Packer