No one wants customers to get sick. That was the message that University of Vermont Extension food safety specialist Londa Nwadike used to start off her recent webinar presentation about food safety tips for farmers market vendors and managers. With an eye toward the benefits of following good food safety
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Extension Programs Extend a Food Safety Hand
Last year alone, the Family Food Education Volunteers at Oregon State University Extension Service spent more than 23,000 hours teaching 29,000 Oregonians how to avoid foodborne illness by using safe food-handling practices.
Part of this volunteer work includes maintaining a hotline that receives as many as 6,000 callers during its
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Penn State Extension Cuts Jobs
Penn State announced today that ten jobs and dozens of additional positions are being eliminated at the university’s College of Agricultural Sciences due to budget shortfalls.
The job cuts will impact the Agricultural Sciences College’s ability to continue to provide high-priority programs that focus on issues related to food