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Food Safety

BerrySmart Food Safety promotes blueberry industry-standard food safety practices.

Food safety is a shared priority across the blueberry industry. This resource center provides growers, handlers and industry partners with easy access to tools, guidance and educational materials on key food safety topics, including agricultural water, sanitation, worker hygiene, traceability, audits and regulations.

Use the search bar or browse by topic to find resources that support safe, practical and responsible food safety practices.

PATHOGENS 101 Bacteria Parasites Virus PERSONAL HYGIENE AGRICULTURAL WATER PESTICIDES PROCESS CONTROLS
SANITATION Basics of sanitation In field/Harvesting Packing TESTING TRACEABILITY ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS RECALLS & OUTBREAKS
REGULATIONS & REGULATORY GENERAL RESOURCES GAPS / AUDITS USDA GRADE STANDARDS
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Personal Hygiene

Blueberry specific food safety guidance describing what can you do to minimize the risk of contamination (with MSU Food Safety Extension).

Blueberry Specific Food Safety

Growing Safe Produce (GSP) is a free training program through which Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agricultura (IICA) seeks to aid growers improve their understanding of the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule (FSMA-PSR).

Growing Safe Produce Training Videos (English & Spanish)

This link contains links to many additional pages specific to blueberries in Nova Scotia, but that may be relevant more broadly. Topics extend beyond food safety and include whole farm management, pest management, pollinators, nutrient management, field management, harvesting, and business risk.

Nova Scotia Wild Blueberry Best Management Practices