Research
Searchable database provides industry with science-based research that is applicable across the produce supply chain, some specific to blueberry (search keyword: blueberry).
Searchable database providing research information on projects funded by USDA ARS across the agricultural sector (search for: blueberry).
Current Research Information System (CRIS) provides documentation and reporting for ongoing agricultural, food science, human nutrition, and forestry research, education and extension activities for the United States Department of Agriculture; with a focus on the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant programs
IAFP is a fresh produce trade association that represents companies from every segment of the global fresh produce and floral supply chain. The Food Safety landing page provides food safety articles, webinars, videos, town halls, among other resources.
Food Safety resources to provide the frozen food industry with easy to reference guidelines on various food safety topics that will ensure implementation of safe food production practices
This Clearinghouse is a curated source of Produce Safety and Preventive Controls for Human Food related resources. Anyone can search and view the resources linked to the clearinghouse by using one or all of the search tools below (type, topic, state, and/or keywords). Search: blueberry.
The FDA created the Data Dashboard to increase transparency and accountability by displaying and allowing the analysis of public FDA data through easy to use, visually accessible, customizable, and understandable graphics.
The Bad Bug Book 2nd Edition, released in 2012, provides current information about the major known agents that cause foodborne illness. Each chapter in this book is about a pathogen—a bacterium, virus, or parasite—or a natural toxin that can contaminate food and cause illness.
The following is a list of outbreak and adverse event investigations primarily being managed by FDA’s CORE Response Teams.
The National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) is a web-based platform that is a way to search outbreak information. It is used by local, state, and territorial health departments in the United States to report all waterborne and foodborne disease outbreaks, certain fungal disease outbreaks, and all enteric disease outbreaks transmitted by contact with environmental sources, infected persons or animals, or unknown modes of transmission to CDC.
This research project involves a consortium of researchers and extension specialists from 9 land grant universities and one federal agency. It will provide unique expertise for examining food safety strategies and methodologies across multiple geographic regions to address the need for systematic validation of food safety metrics.
Free webinars on produce safety topics ranging from risk assessment, agricultural water, environmental monitoring, traceability, sanitation, among others.
Fruit and vegetable growers and others interested in learning about produce safety, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule, Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), and co-management of natural resources and food safety. The PSA Grower Training Course is one way to satisfy the FSMA Produce Safety Rule requirement outlined in § 112.22(c) that requires “At least one supervisor or responsible party for your farm must have successfully completed food safety training at least equivalent to that received under standardized curriculum recognized as adequate by the Food and Drug Administration.”