Veteran farmers and small produce farmers are among the food producers who can benefit from special food safety training paid for with $10 million in new grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Through the grants, administered by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), growers, ranchers and
Continue Reading Federal grants aim to increase food safety through science-based training across U.S.
Dear Editor,
Recently a few media outlets reported on a study warning Americans about the dangers of consuming produce grown by small-scale farmers. Very quickly, however, the study was retracted because its authors failed to comply with basic ethical requirements. Unfortunately, the ethical issue was just one of the
Continue Reading Letter to the Editor: Small scale farmers are food safety practitioners
The local food trend continues to spread, with U.S. consumers increasingly wanting to know exactly where their food comes from, but new data from Auburn University shows food safety issues at “small” and “very small” farms.
“Small and very small facilities do not have as many resources, and, while there
Continue Reading Auburn researchers find food safety gaps at ‘local’ farms
Dan Flynn’s June 6 article in Food Safety News, “Third-party auditor certification: Not the only tool in the toolkit,” makes the case that the Food and Drug Administration should not overly rely on third-party audits to oversee the safety of imported foods under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Continue Reading Comprehensive verification toolkit is needed domestically, too
