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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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Traceability

The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) outlines 7 milestones to implementing case-level tech-enabled traceability in the produce industry supply chain.

Produce Traceability Initiative

The FDA final rule on Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods (which does not currently include blueberries; Food Traceability Final Rule) establishes traceability recordkeeping requirements, beyond those in existing regulations, for persons who manufacture, process, pack, or hold foods included on the Food Traceability List (FTL).

FSMA Final Rule on Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods