The Produce Traceability Initiative action plan outlines seven key elements and milestones for implementing the whole-chain traceability process.

Traceability is the key to executing a proactive retrieval of lots implicated in a suspected or identified pathogen-detection event.

With the implementation of the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement, huge strides have been made in the area of food safety.

Experts agree that pathogen contamination of produce growing in fields may be reduced by applying Good Agricultural Practices.

Refrigerated, perishable products offer a unique level of complexity since there is no singular technology to assure product safety for the broad spectrum of products that exist.

The year 2007 was a banner year for food-related recalls, and 2008 promised to be even worse.

Edith Garrett, a fresh produce industry insider, discusses the challenges facing the produce industry.  

No matter how hard our industry works, public confidence ultimately depends upon government to determine proper food safety standards and ensure that they are being met.

Maintaining consumer acceptance of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables after processing and throughout distribution is a challenge to the produce industry.

For produce producer Earthbound Farm, food safety begins in the field.