Tag: center for produce safety

The California citrus industry is answering the call to strengthen fresh produce food-safety research.

The Center for Produce Safety (CPS) has funded 12 new research projects, valued at just over $3.9 million, to help answer the industry's most urgent produce food safety questions.

Food-grade waxes are applied to a number of produce items before storage and distribution to control post-harvest decay and extend shelf life.

Investing in the food safety of fresh produce comes down to pride, potential, partnership and priorities, say the latest major contributors to Center for Produce Safety’s research program.

Dole Food Company Vice President Food Safety and Quality Natalie Dyenson is frank about the two-sided coin that motivated her company to contribute $750,000 to Center for Produce Safety’s new capital fundraising campaign: much is at stake, and much can also be gained.

Two of the fresh produce industry’s leading organizations are each donating $1 million to Center for Produce Safety, to continue that group’s work to fund science, find solutions and fuel change in fresh produce food safety.

Calling out the need to expand research to answer produce-specific food safety questions, the Center for Produce Safety has launched a new capital fundraising campaign to finance the center’s research program for the next five years.

The Center for Produce Safety (CPS) ­has funded 14 new research projects, valued at just over $3.3 million, to help answer industry's most urgent produce food safety questions.

The attack on Listeria continues at the Center for Produce Safety’s virtual Research Symposium.

The produce industry’s scientific community has targeted Listeria for more study, since that pathogen has targeted the produce industry so directly the past few years.