The Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) is celebrating National Food Safety Education Month by encouraging growers and agricultural associations to share their commitment to food safety.
The EFI is a workforce development and certification organization that partners with growers, farmworkers, retailers and consumer advocacy groups,
Organization leaders
Continue Reading Equitable Food Initiative highlights the role of farmworkers in food safety efforts
Farmworkers exposed to agricultural pesticides need additional information on how to protect themselves, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Since 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has had a Worker Protection Standard (WPS) for agriculture that permits farmworkers to identify someone who can request a farm’s pesticide information for
Continue Reading GAO recommends EPA track use of pesticide information for farmworkers
Who better than the people in the front lines to recognize and call out the enemy?
That’s the underlying strategy of an approach to food safety that relies on farmworkers to spot possible problems in growing fields and packing sheds. Such problems include deer droppings in the field, manure drift
Continue Reading On the front lines of food safety — farmworkers have your back
When the topic is food safety, the first things that might come to mind for many are the farmers growing the food, the stores selling the food, and even the public health scientists who are testing the food to make sure it doesn’t contain any pathogens that could make us
Continue Reading Food safety initiative puts farmworkers front and center
In today’s fresh produce supply chain, foodborne illness is a major challenge for growers and retailers who take pride in providing nutritious and healthful fruits and vegetables to consumers. The industry has made significant strides during the past two decades to reduce the likelihood of pathogen transmission, but the ongoing
Continue Reading Farmworkers will help you comply, if you help them
(This was published April 22, 2014, on The Hill’s Congress blog and is reposted here with permission of the author.) Each Earth Day, we are inundated by advertising and other pronouncements with ways to help protect our planet. But one step – curbing the use of toxic and harmful pesticides
Continue Reading An Earth Day Suggestion to Protect our Planet, Farmworkers and Families
