Food Safety: New England Produce Company Voluntarily Recalls Peanut Snacks; Credits Edible Food Accounting Software for Tracing Bad Peanuts, Helping Protect Consumers

HOUSTON, TX (February 15, 2009) – A New England produce company that voluntarily recalled a line of snacks manufactured from peanuts processed in the Georgia company at the center of a nationwide outbreak of salmonella-related illness, attributed food accounting software operating on the produce company’s computers for helping trace customers who bought the products.

Jim Schofield, an executive with Don Shapiro Produce, Inc., in Everett, MA, said he did not know if the peanut products his company recalled were tainted by salmonella poison, but he said the company is aware that peanuts processed at the Georgia plant were ingredients in the snack products.

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Software that ‘Fights’ -- Exhibitor to Launch Accounting Module at Boston Show That Saves Seafood Distributors Thousands of Dollars in Payroll Costs

HOUSTON, TX – March 5, 2009 – Houston-based Edible Software will launch a ‘recession-fighting’ food accounting software module at the 2009 Boston Seafood Show that will save wholesale seafood distributors many thousands of dollars in labor and payroll costs, “at a time when they need it most,” says the CPA whose company designed it.

“Our engineers were designing and perfecting our new accounting module, Edible Scan, long before Wall Street went bust,” said Henri Morris, the CPA who is president and CEO of Edible Software (www.ediblesoftware.com), a company that creates, sells and maintains accounting and inventory-control software applications exclusively for the wholesale food industry. “We didn’t realize we were coming up with a recession-fighting accounting tool, but that’s exactly what it turned out to be,” he said.

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