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Posts By: Joelle Mosso

May, 2025
WG Science Bringing Applied Research Studies to Members

The Western Growers Science team has been working on applied research projects in the produce industry. Most recently, we have worked to evaluate a new technology, the CytoQuant (Romer Labs), on its utility as an additional tool to monitor food contact surface cleanliness and cleaning programs. CytoQuant is a mobile flow cytometer unit that measures intact microbial cells in as little as…

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Data’s First Lesson – It’s Not What It Appears.  

The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data is expanding, with stated implications ranging from making our lives a bit easier with automatic orders by our refrigerators for items running low, to the slightly more complex problem of solving climate change and world peace.  As with most things, the truth of what AI will offer us (especially in the foreseeable future) largely lies…

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Permission for Risk pt. 2

This is part two of a two-part series on food safety and sustainability. You can read the first part of this series in the March/April edition of the Western Grower & Shipper. Risk-based management requires that we design systems that consistently and efficiently identify risk so that appropriate measures can be implemented to reduce it. Preventing the first step of identification…

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