Food Safety

UF IFAS offers fruit growers food safety education

The University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is offering remote and in-person food safety trainings. Below is a listing of educational opportunities that UF IFAS has scheduled. In-person Produce Safety Alliance grower... more »

Editor’s Letter: New food safety rules affect water, crop handling

This year is flying by. It’s hard to believe summer’s almost gone. With harvesting and plantings for fall harvests, there’s so much on growers’ plates. Growers and others in the supply chain work hard to... more »

Map the flow: FSMA requirements impact on postharvest handling and sanitation

All food contact surfaces of equipment and tools used with covered produce — defined by the Produce Safety Rule as food and vegetables typically consumed raw — must be inspected, maintained and cleaned as reasonably... more »

Food safety focus of new statewide Florida Extension agent

New statewide Florida Extension agent Stephanie Brown is assisting growers with their food safety practices. Growing up in rural Douglas, Georgia, a town of 11,000 people, Brown actively participated in Future Farmers of America. She... more »

WeighPack Systems introduces bulk weigh filling machine

Precision weigh-filling and packaging machinery manufacturer WeighPack Systems Inc. has launched a new bulk weigh filling machine. The new bulk weigh filling machine system integrates an in-line metal detector between the filling process and weigh... more »