Project Overview
This project addressed on-farm food safety issues to help
producers meet the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule
requirements and market driven Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) and Good
Handling Practices (GHPs) programs. Project activities included workshops,
web based educational materials and on-farm visits with extensional personnel.
Five GAPs/GHPs workshops, one FSMA workshop and one Food Safety Risk Management
workshop were hosted around Louisiana with a total participants of 132
producers, processors and extension agents. Topics covered
were water quality and management, manure management, harvesting and storage,
worker health and hygiene, recordkeeping systems, insurance requirements from
buyers and third party certification. Three fact sheets and 14 record keeping
logs were prepared and published in LSU AgCenter food safety web page. The fact
sheets cover different elements of good agricultural practices such as
Pre-harvest food safety risk assessment, Post-harvest handling of fruits and
vegetables and record keeping system.
Number of Participants: 132
PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
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EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
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REPORTS & EVALUATIONS
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