Thanks to some quick work, insightful knowledge and a couple of generous grants, a team of MSU Extension researchers and educators created “Good Agricultural Practices for Food Safety in Blueberry Production: Basic Principals”. Last fall, the North American Blueberry Council voted to adopt this manual as their official food-safety check list. These principles will now apply to the entire high-bush blueberry industry.
Needless to say that the USDA-mandated Good Agricultural Practices regarding food safety make resources like this highly valuable. Kudos to Carlos Garcia-Salazar, Anamaria Gomez-Rodas, Annemiek Schilder, Les Bourquin and John Wise for developing this valuable resource. With the help of Nikki Rothwell, they hope to duplicate the manual for the apple industry.
Good job team! And thanks to Project GREEEN and the USDA Risk Management Agency for supplying funding for the project.
