Posts By: De Ann Davis

WG Requests the FDA, USDA to Sign a Food Safety MOU

On April 29 Western Growers asked the Food and Drug Administration to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) in order for the two organizations to work collaboratively to help conduct root cause analysis for foodborne illness outbreaks. The letter, written by WG ...

Science: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

There are many areas in the western United States where specialty crops are grown in proximity to—or at an immediate interface with—various types of domesticated animal operations. These mixed agricultural regions raise important concerns about the potential of human pathogen transfer from animals to crops. When neighboring operations share the same geography, infrastructure and weather…