If Paramount Farms is not a well-recognized identify to most, that may be excused. This massive, California pistachio grower is not a direct-to-consumer outfit, however quite a provider of nuts to Dealer Joe’s and beneath its personal, better-known model. Paramount was at one time a part of the big agricultural and enterprise group Roll International. In 2015, that firm rebranded itself beneath the lofty moniker The Fantastic Firm. As one may think, this outfit is the producer of Fantastic model pistachios seen in shops. The Fantastic Firm additionally produces and sells POM Fantastic pomegranate juice and merchandise and Fiji bottled water.

Recollects such because the one which compelled Paramount Farms to tug each Dealer Joe’s and Fantastic pistachios out of shops are one of many solely positive home windows into how Dealer Joe’s sources its meals merchandise. It must also be famous that within the eight yr window for the reason that recall, the shop might have switched suppliers for its pistachios.

One other instrument intrepid investigators have used to attempt to determine the provenance of Dealer Joe’s merchandise has been substances lists. Take, as an example, Snack Manufacturing facility’s Pretzel Crisps and Dealer Joe’s Pretzel Slims which have strikingly related substances and even packaging. The identical might be mentioned for Dealer Joe’s Animal Crackers and people from Stauffer’s, although the packaging is completely different. No matter the place they arrive from, simply do not forget that — at the very least in our opinion — there are all the time going to be hits and misses at Dealer Joe’s.