Good Agricultural Practices and Good Manufacturing Practices for Vegetable Production

Handbook of Vegetables and Vegetable Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 461-481

  Bihn, Elizabeth A ^a   Reiners, Stephen ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Every farm and packinghouse operation a written illness reporting protocol; Food safety, important to producers and consumers of foods; Good agricultural practices and good manufacturing practices for vegetable production; Good agricultural practices food safety beginning on the farm; Pest control in packinghouses; Produce outbreak investigations by local, state, and federal regulatory authorities; Produce safety, continuum from farm to table GAPs, being the first step; Record keeping, key to implementation of GAPs and GMPs; Soil amendments, organic and inorganic nutrients soil health and fertility improvement; Workers' health and hygiene practices not emphasized enough, when it comes to produce food safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887202490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470958346.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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