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Harvest-to-Sale Vegetable Handling: Food Safety

Lisa Baker and, Laura Frerichs (October, 2014)

Summary

Safety of food, including fresh produce, is getting a lot of media attention. Some food-borne illness outbreaks have been linked to raw vegetables or fruits. Buyers are demanding better safety practices from their suppliers, and that extends to small-scale farmers selling locally. Practicing good on-farm food safety may require seeing your farm with new eyes and changing the way you think about ordinary things like fertilizer, water, tools, harvest containers, and hands.