Fresh Produce Safety Symposium 2010- September 9th

Fresh Produce Safety Symposium 2010 September 9, 2010 from 9-2:30 PM at the NC State Fair Grounds, Martin Building Outbreaks of food-borne illness related to contamination of fresh produce by human pathogens continue to occur. Federal legislation has been proposed that will result in new rules and regulation for farmers in North Carolina and nationally. [...]

NC Fresh Produce Safety Task Force Efforts for Farmers Toted in National Magazine

In a recently published article in the Food Safety Magazine entitled ” REGULATORY REPORT Produce Safety: FDA Reaches Out to Producers and Packers” , the NC Fresh Produce Task Force’s efforts were highlighted.  The high level of involvement from this task force was recognized – from facilitating NC as one of the designated F DA’s listening [...]

2010-2011 N.C. MarketReady Fresh Produce Curriculum Trainings

In order to help agents as they present the N.C. MarketReady Fresh Produce Safety Curriculum trainings, I have created a cumulative summary of classes.    Please let me know if I have missed any or need to add any trainings. Latest updates can be found on NC MarketReady Website, under Trainings & Events

Resources Requested from Educational Mock Audit/Risk Assessment at CEFS

On August 3rd and 4th 2010 an Educational Mock Audit/ Risk Assessment was conducted at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS). There were several resources mentioned. Here is a list of all documents that pertain to the educational GAPs audit. Power point that was created by Ed LaClaire with NSF Davis Fresh for our educational mock [...]