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Food Safety Resource #1180
Added by Kali Feiereisel • Last updated May 29, 2023
Author: Grace Perry
Type: Coverage Assessment Tools, Fact Sheets
Topic: Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Preventive Controls for Human Foods (PCHF), Preventive Controls (PCs), General (PSR), Produce Safety Rule (PSR), Record Keeping, Traceability
State: CA

Esta guía está redactada para centros de distribución de alimentos y otras instalaciones alimentarias que busquen información sobre cómo tratar las preguntas sobre seguridad alimentaria de los compradores y conseguir una auditoría externa de seguridad alimentaria.

Food Safety Resource #1179
Added by Kali Feiereisel • Last updated May 29, 2023
Author: Grace Perry
Type: Coverage Assessment Tools, Fact Sheets
Topic: Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Preventive Controls for Human Foods (PCHF), Preventive Controls (PCs), General (PSR), Produce Safety Rule (PSR), Record Keeping, Traceability
State: CA

This guide is written for food hubs and other food facilities seeking information about how to navigate food safety questions from buyers and pursue a third-party food safety audit.

Food Safety Resource #1172
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, Wildlife, Domestic Animals & Land Use

Wildlife and domesticated animals can carry pathogens to produce and food contact surfaces. Therefore, growers need to limit or exclude their access to production and packing areas. The objective of this factsheet is to focus on assessment, monitoring and exclusion practices specific to an operation, whether open to the environment, partially- or fully-enclosed.

Food Safety Resource #1171
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

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...

Food Safety Resource #1170
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, Ag Water (Preharvest), Ag Water (Postharvest), Postharvest Handling & Sanitation

Harvest and postharvest handling practices in hydroponic and aquaponic operations are generally similar to those used in field agriculture. A key difference is that in these operations production water (water used in the growing of a crop) can be in close proximity to the crop during harvesting. Postharvest water (water that contacts produce or food contact surfaces during or after harvest) may...

Food Safety Resource #1169
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, Wildlife, Domestic Animals & Land Use, Ag Water (Preharvest)

In an aquaponic operation, the production of fish and produce are interconnected through recirculating water. While the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule (FSMA PSR) does not require practices specific to fish health and handling, it is important for aquaponic growers to understand that these activities impact produce safety. In short, healthy fish and proper handling are critical...

Food Safety Resource #1168
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, Postharvest Handling & Sanitation

The cleaning and sanitizing requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule apply to hydroponic and aquaponic production environments as well as packing areas. The objective of this factsheet is to help growers identify their food contact surfaces and non-food contact surfaces to inform the creation of a cleaning and sanitizing schedule and appropriate standard operating...

Food Safety Resource #1167
Added by Sean Fogarty • Last updated April 1, 2023
Author: Elizabeth Newbold and Sean Fogarty
Type: Add-on / Supplemental Educational Material, Fact Sheets, Project
Topic: General (PSR), Produce Safety Rule (PSR), Worker Health, Hygiene & Training, Wildlife, Domestic Animals & Land Use, Ag Water (Preharvest), Ag Water (Postharvest), Postharvest Handling & Sanitation, Record Keeping

These resources, primarily written for the audience of produce safety educators and regulatory officials, guide readers through produce safety considerations specific to hydroponic and aquaponic operations. They assume a general background in the FSMA PSR and are supplementary to the content of the Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training. The factsheets cover first steps in discussing produce...

Food Safety Resource #1165
Added by Chuck Saba • Last updated March 23, 2023
Type: People
Topic:
State: NH

I have worked in the Hospitality Industry most of my life culminating in the position of VPO. BS Degree Food and Natural Resources UMass Amherst, MM Cambridge College. After of many successful years in Food Service Industry, hiring and training manager, beginning a culture of "people first", beginning a restaurant food safety program, becoming one of the first ServSafe certified...

Food Safety Resource #1164
Added by Annie Fitzgerald • Last updated March 21, 2023
Type: Videos
Topic: General (PCHF), Preventive Controls for Human Foods (PCHF), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Preventive Controls (PCs)

This webinar discusses the Processors' Food Safety Toolkit and how it can help improve Preventive Controls for Human Food rule compliance for small and very small food processors.

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