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Posts By: Joelle Mosso

July, 2026
The GreenLink® Area Index System (AIS™): Building Agriculture’s Black Box 

The checklist has become the default tool for food safety, but it is a poor substitute for systems thinking. Static requirements cannot adequately manage dynamic biological hazards. As a result, checklists tend to fail in one of two ways: (1) they are underpowered, missing the conditions that actually drive risk, or (2) they are overpowered, prescribing such conservative practices that…

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What the Fresh Produce Industry Needs to Know About the Current Cyclospora Outbreaks

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a link between iceberg lettuce from Mexico and served through a Mexican quick-service restaurant.   However, this may not represent the only outbreak, of which, others may not be of direct produce origin. Produce companies may continue to be contacted during traceback investigations.  Key points for…

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The current Cyclospora response is exposing three major gaps in our public health system. 

(1) Risk communication matters.  When federal agencies and state health departments are not aligned, the result is not transparency…it is confusion, fear and unintended economic harm. This approach can, and does, create a longer-term problem than the outbreak itself.   Vague warnings and inconsistent messaging about the potential sources of the outbreak create anxiety for…

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Cyclospora: Blind by Choice. This is the Cost of Dismantling Food Safety Surveillance

There’s something new these days in food safety. Or, more accurately, something old. We have returned to a time when we were challenged to know what was happening in food safety and public health since the tools were not available to us. There was no PCR. There was no Whole Genome Sequencing. We didn’t know about some of the pathogens that we now freely discuss – not because they…

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The Barrier Is Not Always Data Results. Sometimes It Is Decision Culture

A major barrier to learning from data is not always the absence of evidence. Sometimes the learning is clear, but the culture is not ready to accept it.  For academics, subject matter experts and industry groups that are advising industry, developing best practices or recommending how learnings should be applied, this raises a deeper responsibility. The legal concept of duty of…

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