A new report released by Produce Marketing Association (PMA) in conjunction with Western Growers Association (Western Growers) provides valuable insight into produce-specific food safety research findings presented at the Center for Produce Safety’s (CPS) first-ever Research Symposium in June 2010. The report lays out key findings from - and real-world applications of - CPS’s first 11 research projects in practical and comprehensible terms.The projects range from looking at movement of E. coli O157:H7 in field-inoculated lettuce to examine its survivability in real field production environments. Other research also looked at enhancing the effectiveness of and evaluating pathogen testing systems. The role of different pathogen vectors and their food safety risk was examined in projects looking at fly reservoirs and leafy greens, sheep grazing in vegetable stubble fields, and how to minimize pathogen transfer during lettuce harvesting.
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