Video Series: Essentials of Food Safety for Farmworkers
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We all know that farm employees have many crucial roles on the farm, including carrying out food safety policies and practices. However, their ability to do that effectively, depends heavily on the quality of the training they receive. To meet the growing need for online, easily accessible resources, Robert Hadad and Caitlin Tucker have designed "Essentials of Food Safety for Farmworkers", a 5-part video series that covers many of the required worker training topics set forth by FSMA (the Food Safety Modernization Act), or other 3rd party auditing programs.
Part 1: Creating a Worker Training Program
In Part 1, farm employees and managers will learn about the importance of training farmworkers, topics that farmworkers should be trained on, considerations for training farmworkers, the role of the food safety manager, and resources available to managers to assist in training.
Part 2: Food Safety and Why it Matters
In Part 2, farm employees will learn 5 reasons we should care about food safety, the 3 types of pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses, the 5 routes of contamination on the farm, and potential food safety risks on the farm.
Part 3: Everyday Practices to Prevent Foodborne Illness
In Part 3, farm employees will learn about everyday practices that can reduce the risk of contaminating produce with foodborne pathogen, the steps of proper handwashing, when hands should be washed, the proper way to deal with injuries, and symptoms of foodborne illnesses.
Part 4: Reducing Food Safety Risks on the Farm
In Part 4, employees will learn the difference between cleaning and sanitizing and how to effectively do both, possible risks throughout production areas, wash/pack facilities, storage, and transportation, and steps farmworkers should take if they find a risk they cannot mitigate.
Part 5: Spot the Risk - A Series of Case Studies
In Part 5, employees will be introduced to possible scenarios containing food safety risks, learn why the scenario contains a food safety risk, learn about immediate actions they can take to minimize the risks, and learn about future changes that can be made to prevent the risk from happening again.
Transcript: Part I - Creating a Worker Training Program (pdf; 235KB)
Transcript: Part 2 - Food Safety and Why it Matters (pdf; 370KB)
Transcript: Part 3 - Everyday Practices to Prevent Foodborne Illness (pdf; 315KB)
Transcript: Part 4 - Reducing Food Safety Risks on the Farm (pdf; 461KB)
Transcript: Part 5 - Spot the Risk - A Series of Case Studies (pdf; 371KB)
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Upcoming Events
Niagara Region Vegetable Meeting
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August 14, 2024
Clarence Center, NY
We'll start this meeting off at Root Down Farm to hear late season disease management updates in peppers and cole crops, plus current best management practices to limit fungicide resistance. Potato variety recommendations and disease control questions in potatoes will be addressed.
Then we'll head to Kreher's beet field to view and discuss alternative weed control technologies. The beet field is an on-farm demonstration of various flame weeding protocols in comparison with stacked tool cultivation equipment. One or two weeding robots will be on-hand for live demonstrations and discussion of the technology's current abilities and future potential. We'll also cover industry updates and a review of late summer disease management in squash.
2.0 DEC credits will be available in categories 23, 1a, and 10.
2024 Chipping Potato Twilight Meeting
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August 20, 2024
Dansville, NY
Join us for a brief, on-farm meeting including insect pest updates and viewing of the chipping potato variety trial. 1.0 DEC credits in categories 10, 1a, and 23 will be offered. Dinner follows!