When Assistant Director Lisa Hovey takes over in just 75 days as Executive Director for David Tharp, it will mark the first time in 30 years that the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) will
Continue Reading IAFP Executive Director David Tharp to retire
European experts and commercial growers have listed a series of recommendations to help reduce the risk of produce contamination.
A workshop in 2019 featured researchers, regulators, growers and other stakeholders to examine best practices to
Continue Reading Experts assess ways to reduce produce safety risks
It’s one thing for someone working in the produce industry to attend a conference with all sorts of regulators and scientists talking about food safety. But it’s quite another thing for those folks to be
Continue Reading USDA wants to hear produce industry’s voice in anonymous food safety survey
Day Three of the International Association for Food Protection 2020, A Virtual Annual Meeting featured a round table discussion, “This Is How We Do It: Challenges and Strategies for Implementing Water Treatment in the Field,”
Continue Reading IAFP features round table on the challenges and strategies for implementing water treatment in the field
Growers are enthusiastically helping a team of scientists researching how cantaloupes pick up and pass on pathogens in a first-of-its-kind project, but retailers have not stepped up.
Laura Strawn, right, is
Continue Reading Researchers need retail help with cantaloupe safety project
