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Castellini Group of Companies and Fresh Innovations/J-V Farms stepped up to join the growing list of contributors to the Center for Produce Safety (CPS) Campaign for Research.
Four private companies and two commodity groups chose Fresh Summit to announce their pledges to the Center for Produce Safety (CPS) Campaign for Research. This funding will support CPS’s competitive research grant programs.
CPS announces awards to 12 new research projects to help mitigate food safety risks associated with growing and harvesting fresh produce.
In conjunction with CPS's ongoing mission to translate research, we have provided a glimpse of the key research findings, discussions points, observations and highlights from the symposium....
The Center for Produce Safety's Advisory Board convened on June 27, with a key order of business to welcome new board leadership as well as recognize departing board members for their service.CPS is pleased to announce produce industry veteran...
Wegman Family Charitable Foundation representatives presented a gift of $250,000 to Center for Produce Safety officers today, during opening ceremonies for CPS’s second annual Produce Research Symposium in Orlando, Fla. The gift is the first made from the retail sector since CPS was founded in 2007...
Symposium coordinators are getting the word out that Session V of the CPS Produce Research Symposium will provide perspective and create conversation about the “big research picture.”
Make sure to view important FDA and CPS produce safety research on poster sessions in ChampionsGate Room. This year's symposium will have all eyes toward the stage during each of the five sessions but the research findings will not stop at the end of each session. During the symposium's breaks and reception in the ChampionsGate Room, CPS will showcase...
This session will focus on some novel concepts and next-generation ideas in produce food safety. We will explore genetic interaction between...
The challenges and opportunities of "mining" industry and regulatory surveillance data to assess risks will be the focus of session three....
The second session looks at pathogen survival and mitigations in production environments for several specific commodities. Results of research that identified factors...
This is the first in a five part series which will look at each session being presented in Orlando, Florida.... The first session focuses on postharvest approaches to minimizing pathogen contamination. Water sanitation has been a crucial issue for several years and research presented in Session I sheds
The latest food safety findings from the Center for Produce Safety’s (CPS) research program will be presented and discussed at the 2011 CPS Produce Research Symposium in Orlando, FL. The agenda reflects the center’s produce-specific research mission to sponsor short-term research with real-world applications to help answer industry’s most pressing food safety questions. The symposium is designed for a global audience, and is equally relevant to industry, government, the public health community and academia....
Organizations from across the produce supply chain and both public and private sectors have committed to sponsoring the Center for Produce Safety's 2011 Produce Research Symposium, which will be held June 28 in Orlando, Fla., USA.
CPS today announced that it had joined with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) to host a produce safety tour of Florida produce production to provide federal agencies and regulators first hand, in-depth experience and knowledge of industry current practices of how produce is safely grown, packed and handled
Summaries from the June 2010 Produce Research Priorities meeting are now available under the Resources link....
Registration is now open for the Center for Produce Safety's 2011 Produce Research Symposium, to be held June 28 in Orlando, Florida....
The 2011 RFP seeks to fund both produce-general food safety questions and commodity-specific questions. Core (produce-general) research priorities endeavor to better understand risk potential and to develop...
The Center for Produce Safety 2011 Produce Research Symposium will be held June 28, 2011, at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate. In keeping with its purpose to identify and fund research specific to a commodity, region or industry...
For all press inquiries please contact Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli at bonnie@centerforproducesafety.org.
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