Food Safety
Fresh Express shares food safety story through videos
Fresh Express has unveiled an insider’s look at advancements in its all-inclusive food safety and quality program in a video series that covers supply chain-wide critical controls and procedures from field to table. The video... more »
Center for Produce Safety elects Joe Pezzini as chair
Joe Pezzini is setting a personal tone for his tenure as the new chair of Center for Produce Safety’s Board of Directors. Pezzini, senior director of agricultural operations for Taylor Farms, was elected chair June... more »
USDA specialty crop program offsets up to $200 million in food safety costs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing specialty crop growers up to $200 million to offset certain expenses incurred to receive food safety certification. The USDA’s new Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops (FSCSC) program... more »
GLOBALG.A.P. releases new version, schedules webinars
GLOBALG.A.P. North America Inc. is releasing a new version and scheduling webinars to discuss the updated product range. The revised Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) standard Version 6 and the GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice... more »
Portable paper-based tool used to detect fecal contamination
Mohit Verma, with Purdue University, is leading efforts to develop a low-cost portable paper-based tool that can produce results of potential mammalian fecal contamination in about an hour.Having this information quickly could help producers make... more »
Preventing cross contamination: spring chores
Warmer than average March temperatures have started the growing season ahead of “normal.” Springtime brings a seemingly endless series of things to do in the field, plus the picking and packing of early-season high-tunnel crops.... more »
Project seeks bio-based coatings to minimize cross-contamination
Nitin Nitin, Ph.D., with the University of California, Davis, doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel when it comes to ways to minimize potential pathogen cross-contamination with produce. As a result, he is leading research into... more »
FDA won’t conduct broad sampling of leafy greens in Salinas Valley in 2022
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to not conduct broad sampling of leafy greens grown in the Salinas Valley based on data from Western Growers (WG), the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, and... more »
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