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CPS to start 10 new food safety projects

- General News
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.

Center for Produce Safety welcomes 2023-2024 board leaders

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

CPS Research Symposium will answer industry’s “what now?

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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.

CPS November 2022 Produce Research Report focuses on romaine lettuce

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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.

CPS participating in Giving Tuesday

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

Dozens of industry leaders advocate for and fund Center for Produce Safety

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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.

Center for Produce Safety names new board of directors chair

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

Fresh Express donates $500K to fund produce safety research

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Value-added salad leader Fresh Express has contributed $500,000 to Center for Produce Safety’s current capital campaign to fund fresh produce food-safety research.

Research seeks portable paper-based tool to detect fecal contamination

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Mohit Verma, Ph.D., with Purdue University, is leading efforts to develop a low-cost portable paper-based tool that can produce results of potential mammalian fecal contamination in about an hour.

CPS project seeks bio-based coatings to reduce cross-contamination

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Nitin Nitin, Ph.D., with the University of California, Davis, doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel when it comes to ways to minimize potential pathogen cross-contamination with produce.