Source: Cookson Beecher, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 12/3/19


A noted food-safety expert says she’s pleased with how much information about local farms and food safety is contained in a recently released needs assessment survey report,  but she also admitted to being surprised at one of the unexpected that surfaced in the report. According to the report, some local food producers were confident in their ability to assess food safety risks in their operations, despite more than a third of the participants in the survey indicating that they had not been to any formal food-safety training, such as Good Agriculture Practices (GAPs) or a Produce Safety Alliance grower training.

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