It’s 2013, not 1998, so Bill Pool, manager of food safety for the Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans Food Markets, is completely accurate when he told Produce Retailer, “I don’t think any grower ought to be shocked that a retailer requires documentation that they have practices and procedures in place. It doesn’t make a bit of difference if it’s an organic product or a conventional product. Growers have to have some kind of baseline, some kind of minimal standards across the board.”

Good.

Now advertise those food safety requirements at retail so consumers can choose.