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From: Food Quality Magazine, 1.18.2012
Features
Produce Pros Welcome New USDA Food Safety Tool
Free resource assists smaller growers with vital materials
A new, free online food safety tool from the USDA, designed to help fruit and vegetable producers create their own custom food safety plans, has drawn praise from farmers.
USDA Sponsors 3-year, $9.4 Million Produce Research
Major study to improve scientific framework for food safety standards in leafy greens, tomatoes
A three-year, $9.4 million USDA-sponsored study aimed at developing scientific evidence to support food safety standards for the production of tomatoes and leafy greens will be the largest of its kind in the fresh produce industry, according to the study’s lead investigator, Robert Buchanan, PhD, director of the Center for Food Safety and Security Systems (CFS3) at the University of Maryland.
