Produce Safety in Hydroponic and Aquaponic Operations: Personal Health and Hygiene

Added by Sean Fogarty • Last updated April 1, 2023

Author: Elizabeth Newbold and Sean Fogarty

Type: Add-on / Supplemental Educational Material, Fact Sheets

Topic: General (PSR), Produce Safety Rule (PSR), Worker Health, Hygiene & Training

Language: English

There are regular and frequent human interactions with hydroponic and aquaponic operation components. Therefore, effective training and implementation of health and hygiene standard operating procedures (SOPs) is essential to produce safety. The objective of this factsheet is to help growers consider the different ways humans interact throughout the system. Based on these interactions, growers need to understand when health and hygiene training must be provided.

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