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The Center for Produce Safety is honored to showcase three research projects during the Fresh Summit Research to Real-World: The Best of Food Safety Innovations workshop, October 16. The workshop format will be similar to the CPS Symposium held in June 2010...
The awarding of 17 new grants for research to help mitigate food safety risks associated with growing and harvesting fresh produce was announced by CPS today...
CPS has been asked to summarize the information presented at the Symposium. Dr. Bob Whitaker, PMA's chief science officer and the chair of the CPS Technical Committee, has provided a list of 15 key learnings from the research reports...
The final reports for the first eleven projects funded by the Center for Produce Safety have been posted...
The first-ever research symposium brought the private fresh produce chain together with researchers and government officials June 23 to learn about and discuss the real-world business applicability of the center's produce-specific food safety research...
Sponsors making this event possible include platinum sponsor Produce Marketing Association (PMA), gold sponsors iGPS and Taylor Farms, and silver sponsors Castellini Group of Companies, Chiquita Brands International/Fresh Express, C. H. Robinson Worldwide Inc., Ecolab, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Florida - IFAS, Florida Fruit & Vegetable Assodation, The Giumarra Companies, Microsoft Dynamics and UC Dcwis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences....
The produce industry will learn the practical, real-world applications of the latest produce-specific food safety research when the Center for Produce Safety’s (CPS) first-ever Produce Research Symposium gets underway Wednesday, June 23. This unique research event will present results of 11 CPS-funded research projects, along with an interactive discus-sion of the research’s real-world opportunities by leaders in produce, academia and government...
The Produce Research Symposium on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of California, Davis was announced today by CPS...
Today CPS announced a request for research proposals (RFP) to address both general and commodity‐specific research questions related to fresh produce safety...
For all press inquiries please contact Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli at bonnie@centerforproducesafety.org.
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