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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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Testing

Part of CONTACT’s Mini Webinar Series – Learn in Less than 10 minutes. Here, Dr. Michelle Danyluk discusses why do you test.

Why you might test your product mini webinar

Part of CONTACT’s Mini Webinar Series – Learn in Less than 10 minutes. Here, Dr. Don Schaffner discusses microbiological sampling (part 1).

Microbiological Sampling Part 1

Part of CONTACT’s Mini Webinar Series – Learn in Less than 10 minutes. Here, Dr. Don Schaffner continues his discussion on microbiological sampling (part 2).

Microbiological Sampling Part 2

This link directs users to several IFPA/ United Fresh resources, including a 2010 white paper on the basics of testing, and a 2020 “Key Questions” document.

IFPA Sampling and Testing

Environmental monitoring

Guidance on Environmental Monitoring and Control of Listeria for the Fresh Produce Industry

This guidance is intended to be applicable to all fresh and fresh-cut produce operations, including field and field packing, packinghouses, and other produce handling operations including re-pack, value-added and transport/distribution to retail/foodservice, recognizing that vulnerability to L. monocytogenes contamination and entrenchment in equipment or a facility will depend on the type(s) and production region of the commodities handled and the nature of the handling.

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Considerations for Fresh Produce Dry-pack Environmental Monitoring Programs

This document is intended to be applicable to all fresh and fresh-cut produce operations, including field and field packing, packinghouses, and other produce handling operations.

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