Joelle Mosso, Author at Western Growers Association Western Growers Association

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Food Safety Systems Should Be Designed for Risk – It’s Time We Really Talk About That.

Let me start with something that shouldn’t be controversial: all food should be safe. But expecting safe food and assuming the absence of risk are two very different things. Food production is full of hazards. In fresh produce, we operate in open agricultural environments where water, weather, wildlife, workers, soil, equipment and adjacent land uses can all influence…

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Food Safety Risk is a Hard Science. What We Do About it is a Social Science.

We can measure pathogens, characterize hazards, estimate exposure and evaluate whether interventions reduce risk. Increasingly, better data and analytical tools allow us to understand risks with greater resolution than ever before. But science alone cannot answer one important question: How safe is safe enough? Risk is partly a scientific calculation and partly a human judgment. A…

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