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Since you are posting under the heading "Flood Claims", I'm not sure if your heading "I am in the Food Business" is a typo that should have been "I am in the Flood Business". If you are handling and reselling food that has been in a flood claim, I hope I never am served that food or have it offered for sale to me. If you let me know who buys "distressed" food that has been through a flood, I will be sure to avoid buying anything from them. I think the health departments in various municipalities may have something about selling salvaged food from flood damaged properties as well.

If you mean "Flood" instead of "Food", may I suggest that you use the edit option to correct your copy, and while you're at it, you might also correct the spelling of "insruance". I know....spelling police, right? Well, in this case I'm not sure what your intention is because of the spelling.

Steve, I have a friend that made lots of money in the "distressed food" business. He buys salvage, stores it, cleans it, sorts it, advertises it for what it is and makes lots of money.

I sold him a liquor store inventory and the contents of a dog food mahttp://www.catadjuster.org/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/grey/save32.pngnufacturer's plant. As weird as it seems he sold the bulk dog food to an outfit that raise white tail deer.

His canned goods generally come from a cold storage cave located in North Arkansas and are just cases that have wet or bent. Some of his bulk grains come from train wrecks or truck wrecks.

Oops.   I read while at work and sometimes I read to fast for my own good.   I browsed at this thinking this was a food salvage forum not flood forum.

 

Anybody know where I would go or how to find people that deal with freight claims dealing with food - truck or ship claims basically?

 

Thanks

I'm so glad your food isn't coming out of a flood. Salvaged food items = good.  Flood Damaged food items = Ick! 

I agree with Chuck that food salvage can have value, but flooded food is an entirely different matter. Though I rarely have this type of salvage, email me your info in a private message or post your contact info here and I will keep you in mind.

when I worked in the import business I had a shipment of frozen lobster that the airline left outside the cooler. The marine surveyor (hired to adjust the loss) knew a food salver who bought it and ended up cooking it and turning it into some kind of canned product, or so I heard.

For those who aren't familiar, frozen is often more perishable than fresh- if frozen gets a little bit defrosted, it could be a total loss. If fresh gets warmed up a little, it can often be cooled back down, depending on what it is. Chilled vegetables can go up in temperature no problem. Ice cream gets warmed up, it can't be refrozen.

But people would be surprised how often truck drivers turn off their refrigerator units when they cross the country.

Almost all larger cities have adjusting firms that handle trucking claims, over the road trucking, and they are aware of salvage when there is a wreck. Over the years I have handled paper, rugs, raw chicken, beef, canned goods, fiberglass, lumber, wire, liquor and movie film.

All of the ports have adjusting firms that are close to the port and handle claims caused by both land and marine transportation.

Some leg work would turn up names.