Tag: center for produce safety

After 16 years as the staff lead for the Center for Produce Safety, Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli will begin a new chapter in mid-2025.

Center for Produce Safety has a bold new brand identity to visually depict its mission to fuel produce safety change. 

Based on recently completed research led by Xiangwu Nou, Ph.D., with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, the forward- and source-processing practices did not yield significantly different risks for the survival and growth of E. coli O157:H7 under laboratory simulation.

To help answer the fresh produce industry’s most urgent food safety questions, Center for Produce Safety has just funded 10 new research projects, valued at just over $2.7 million.

Board chair Joe Pezzini of Taylor Farms hailed three new directors and seven returning ones, and bade farewell to three long-time directors.

Produce safety research doesn’t have to be complicated. Center for Produce Safety’s 2023 Research Symposium will focus on making its research learnings relatable to industry when the event convenes June 20-21 in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood.

Several researchers have examined the fate of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 bacteria on romaine lettuce in the field and during post-harvest washing at processors.

This year, the Center for Produce Safety is participating in Giving Tuesday.

Almost two dozen organizations from across the fresh produce supply chain have contributed from $100,000 up to $250,000 so far to Center for Produce Safety’s latest campaign to fund fresh produce food-safety research, CPS reports.

Joe Pezzini is setting a personal tone for his tenure as the new chair of Center for Produce Safety’s (CPS) Board of Directors.