Food Safety Lunch and Learn Webinar Series
This 3-part webinar series, organized and hosted by CADE, will provide a general background of farm food safety. Presented by Robert Hadad, CCE Cornell Vegetable Program.
Event Details
Date
February 11, 2025
Time
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
online
Host
Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship (CADE)
Event Registration
Part One: What's Going on with Food Safety?
NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets FSMA inspectors are expected to step up farm visits this season. Why are they showing up on the farm asking about FSMA? Aren't we exempt? This noontime hour we will discuss the purpose of the farm visits and what produce farmers need to know.
Event Details
Date
February 18, 2025
Time
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
online
Host
Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship (CADE)
Event Registration
Part Two: What Counts as Food Processing?
In this session, we will discuss what counts as processing and what doesn't. Stories of inspectors coming to farmers markets and auctions telling some growers certain products can't be sold usually without much explanation. We will try to make some sense of things and clear up some misunderstandings so hopefully the upcoming season goes smoothly.
Event Details
Date
February 25, 2025
Time
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
online
Host
Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship (CADE)
Event Registration
Part Three: Traceability - Benefits for Food Safety and Beyond
Can having a traceback process for your produce (and other farm products) make good business sense regardless of FSMA regulations? We will (try to) make the case for farms to have some sort of traceability mechanism in place.


Upcoming Events
Farm Food Safety Training with GAPs
April 1, 2025
Farmersville, NY
All produce farms want to grow safe food, right? Are your markets asking for food safety plans or audit certification? Do you want to understand produce safety issues? A way to do this is to learn and follow produce safety practices with Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs).
Join Robert Hadad, Regional Vegetable Specialist with the Cornell Vegetable Program, and Lynn Bliven, Ag & Natural Resources Issue Leader from CCE Allegany County for this full day workshop on Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) and leave with information to start a food safety plan for YOUR farm!