Food Safety Featured at Farm-to-Fork
Was grandma correct leaving her butter dish in the cupboard? Read about this food safety tidbit and the veterinary medicine booth at the third annual Farm-to-Festival.
A Healthy Harvest – Researchers Explore Impact of Use of Raw Animal Manure on Tomato Contamination
Conventional growers and home gardeners alike, use soil amendments such as compost and manure to improve soil productivity and soil quality. However, application of untreated biological soil amendments of animal origin (raw animal manure) may represent a potential risk for fresh produce of contamination with enteric pathogenic bacteria. What does all of this mean for the backyard gardener?
A Day on the Flats
Clamming is a popular recreational sport year-round in Northern California, though the most popular periods are during the late spring and summer when the lowest tides of the year expose tidal flats for a few brief hours at a time.
Protecting Animal Feed Protects Our Food
Although not typically on the minds of the public, regulation and inspection of animal feeds affects them every day, from keeping their pet foods safe to preventing BSE (“Mad Cow Disease”) from entering the United States. Feed inspection is also important to farmers and ranchers by safeguarding livestock feed thus ensuring that the meat, milk and eggs produced are safe for humans as well.
Invasion of Exotic Plant Disease: Practicing Our Emergency Response
What happens when an exotic plant disease spreads across the agricultural fields of your state? Plant and agricultural product inspectors are the front-line troops for controlling or eliminating parasites, fungi, bacteria and viruses that could impact your state’s natural resources and cultivated agricultural products.
FDA’s Milk Residue Study and Our Food Safety
The new FDA report on drug residues in milk concludes that milk is safe, but if they found any drugs at all, how safe can it really be?
On-Farm Food Safety Study Looking for Volunteers
A University of California-Davis research team is enrolling organic and conventional farms to participate in a research opportunity for small to medium size farms.
WIFSS News Roundup – 2014
Greetings from WIFSS, and Happy New Year; just in case you missed them, here are some 2014 news stories highlighting WIFSS’s efforts in Research, Outreach, Training and International Programs.
WIFSS Director Receives Award
A team of UC Davis water quality researchers are recipients of the UC Agriculture and Natural Resource 2013-14 Outstanding Team Award.
Food Safety and “Mad Cow Disease”
On June 2, 2014 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed a diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (vCJD) in a patient who recently died in Texas.