The Food Safety Dish

We got the dish on seaweed from marine aquaculture specialist Anoushka Concepcion, an associate extension educator at UConn Avery Point's SeaGrant program and leader of the National Seaweed Hub, which collaboratively addresses the emerging needs of the national seaweed aquaculture industry. We take a deep dive into seaweed aquaculture: what it consists of, new market opportunities and challenges, and of course, how food safety ties into it all.

Resources:

• The National Seaweed Hub
• The Connecticut Sea Grant Seaweed Cultivation Page:
  • Business Planning for Kelp Farming
  • CT Seaweed Food Safety Hazards Guide
  • Understanding Culinary Markets for Seaweed in Southern New England Report
  • Collection of Seaweed recipes

Yes, we CAN utilize Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs)! Hear from inspired producer, baker, and entrepreneur Shamilla Roberts and Carolina Farm Stewardship Association's Food Systems Specialist Keisha Rainey on how CFSA's cGMP online module program has helped Shamilla grow her food business. We discuss how the module is a great foundation for building thriving, food-safe businesses, preserving peak harvests, and how more accessible community preserved foods can help us realize a better food future.

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association

CFSA Events & Trainings

Green Raven Organics

If you are interested in CFSA's CGMP online modules, please contact Keisha at [email protected]

Hear all about the buzz from apiary operations at two different ends of the country: urban bee keepers Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey of Detroit Hives in Michigan, and from Tara Chapman of Two Hives Honey in Austin, Texas. They share how pollinators fit into and enhance the fabric of an urban landscape, how they navigate consumer expectations on honey, and how food safety and security are tied to our small but mighty pollinators. Bees Please!

Detroit Hives

Two Hives Honey

In this exciting, jam-packed episode, we talk with National Farmers Union's Government Relations team members Mike Stranz and Aaron Shier, as well all-star urban growers Akello Karamoko and Romondo Woods II from Detroit, Michigan. We discuss how NFU's grassroots advocacy works, and hear from Akello and Romondo's experience bringing issues from the farm all the way up to their representatives on Capitol Hill. Tune in to hear how you too can become an advocate for your farm community, at home and beyond!

Get involved with NFU!

Keep Growing Detroit

Urban Youth Agriculture (UYA) Detroit

Longtime food safety expert and consultant Dr. Jennifer McEntire joins us to talk recordkeeping, the FDA Traceability rule, and how to best incorporate a good traceability system on your farm.

Resources:

FDA Traceability Rule

Food Traceability List

Produce Traceability Initiative

GS1 US FSMA 204 Readiness Checklist

GS1 Guide to How Standards Fit Into the Rule

Jennifer's Consultancy: Food Safety Strategy | FSMA

Kicking off Season 2 of the Food Safety Dish is a compelling conversation on produce recalls, crisis management strategies, and how to navigate a recall should it strike. We got the dish from experts Gretchen Wall, former Director of Food Safety & Quality at the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), PR communications expert Amy Philpott, and Margaret Dominguez, VP of Food Safety & Compliance at Soli Organics. All have experience navigating recalls and helping farms get back on track after the dreaded event, sharing their best advice so you can avoid this outcome. Plus, Gretchen calls Billy with a "trial" recall scenario -- there's an abundance of good information in this episode, so dig in!

Resources:

International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA)

IFPA Crisis Management 101

IFPA Recall Ready Workshop

FDA ORA Recall Coordinators

FSPCA Recall Plan Template

Philpott PR Solutions

In an exciting bonus episode, we share a roundtable discussion with some of our esteemed season one guests on the topic "Creating Cultures of Food Safety." Anita Adalja, Lorig Hawkins, and Nathan Stacey all sat down with us to share their visions for good food safety farm cultures, and leave us with some maps on how we might arrive there.

Check out our guests' websites:

Not Our Farm

Middle Ground Farm

Tilth Alliance

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Anita Adalja, founder of Not Our Farm, sat down with the food safety team to discuss how community care and considerations for farmworkers--the heart of farm operations--lead to healthy work environments, healthy food, happy people, and beyond!

Resources

Not Our Farm Website

Not Our Farm Zine: A Guide to Working on Farms

Fair Share CSA Coalition

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The food safety team sat down with Donna Clements, Produce Safety Alliance Coordinator and Northeast Regional Extension Associate. We discuss what sanitizers are, how to choose and use them wisely, and about plenty of tools and resources to guide you in your practice.

Resources

• Produce Safety Alliance: https://cals.cornell.edu/produce-safety-alliance
• Introduction to Selecting an EPA-Labeled Sanitizer: https://resources.producesafetyalliance.cornell.edu/documents/Sanitizer-Factsheet.pdf
• UVM Sanitizer Dose Calculator: https://ageng.w3.uvm.edu/sanitizer/index.html
• UVM Safely Dispensing Sanitizers: https://blog.uvm.edu/cwcallah/2020/12/15/safely-dispensing-sanitizers/
• National GAPs program Decision Tree on Postharvest Water Use (includes SOP template): https://cals.cornell.edu/national-good-agricultural-practices-program/resources/educational-materials/decision-trees/postharvest-water
• Food Safety Considerations for Postharvest Washing of Produce and Sanitation of Packing Areas: https://www.foodsafetyclearinghouse.org/sites/default/files/files/fs353e.pdf
• PSA Sanitizer tool (opens as an Excel sheet): https://resources.producesafetyalliance.cornell.edu/documents/PSA-Labeled-Sanitizers-for-Produce.xlsx

Compost... one of the great wonders of the world! We got the dish from Seattleites Nathan Stacey, Farm Programs Director at Tilth Alliance and Liv Johansson, Compost Facility Operator at the Woodland Park Zoo & Vice President of the Washington Organics Recycling Council (WORC.) We talked soil science, the basics of compost, the coveted "Zoo Doo" compost program at Woodland Park Zoo, and how compost's myriad of uses bring bounty and stability to not only farms, but also help the earth as we know it spin round!

Resources:

Washington State University Compost Mix Calculator

Tilth Alliance Resources

WORC Resources

Soils for Salmon