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Featured Resources

GAPs Network – Good Agricultural Practices Network site features multilingual educational materials, record-keeping forms, and more.
GAP/GHP Food Safety Audit – Voluntary, audit-based program from USDA-AMS in partnership with state departments of agriculture verifies adherence to the FDA recommendations.
Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship – Provides comprehensive assistance to food entrepreneurs. Includes technical guide, factsheets, and more.
Produce Safety Alliance – Providing fundamental, science-based, on-farm food safety knowledge to fresh fruit and vegetable farmers, packers, regulatory personnel and others interested in the safety of fresh produce.

Newsletters

Produce Safety Alliance Newsletters: click here to join the PSA Listserve.
More Newsletters

FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

Food Safety Modernization Act (FDA)
Produce Safety Standards (FDA)
Food Safety Modernization Act (Cornell Produce Safety Alliance)

General Information

Produce Safety Alliance
Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA)
USDA GAP/GHP Food Safety Audit
Food Safety Through Good Irrigation Practices (OMAFRA Factsheet, 772 kb pdf)

Crop-Specific Information

Tree Fruit

Fruits, Vegetables, Cider, & Juice: National GAP’s Program and Produce Safety Alliance (Cornell Food Science)
Cider Processing and Safety Educational Videos (Cornell Food Science)
Juice HACCP Certification Course (Cornell Food Science)

Grapes

Sanitation During Grape Harvest (1998, Finger Lakes Vineyard Notes, 46 kb pdf)

Berries

Food Safety White Paper (National Berry Crops Initiative, 303 kb doc)
GAPs for Food Safety in Blueberry Production: Basic Principles (Michigan State Univ. 447 kb pdf)
Food Safety in the Berry Patch (Ohio State Univ. 1.83 kb pdf)

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