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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.

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In field/Harvesting

Template log for harvest tools, containers and machine cleaning by the Washington Blueberry Commission and Washington Red Raspberry Commission

Harvest Tool and Machine Cleaning Sample Log

Research study that surveyed up to nine contact surfaces on different mechanical harvesters for environmental and fecal indicator organisms including total aerobes, total yeasts and molds, coliforms and fecal coliforms, and enterococci.

Machine Harvester Food Safety Fact Sheet

Food Safety 101 for machine harvesters including pre-clean considerations, checklist, cleaning location, types of detergents and sanitizers, monitoring and verification activities, record keeping, etc.

Machine Harvester Food Safety Fact Sheet