Center for Produce Safety

Center for Produce Safety Research Explores the Relationship Between Product Testing, Consumer Risk

January 8, 2020 Center for Produce Safety

While many researchers have looked at risk reduction in-field or during processing, Emma Hartnett, Ph.D. is taking a more holistic approach and examining how sampling locations within the entire supply chain may influence consumer risk. …

CPS Awards $ 200K To First-Ever Research Project Studying Effectiveness Of Various Agriculture Water Treatments

November 18, 2019 Center for Produce Safety

The Center for Produce Safety (CPS) has funded its first-ever research project to study the effectiveness of various agricultural water treatments, awarding $200,000 to a team led by University of Arizona’s Channah Rock, Ph.D. …

GRABIT Challenge Award Recipients Announced

August 7, 2019 Center for Produce Safety

Center for Produce Safety (CPS) has awarded three groundbreaking solutions-directed concepts to develop tools that can help growers identify and evaluate food safety risks posed by proximity to domesticated animal agriculture in the real world, in real time. …

CPS Conference Focuses on Traceability, Implementation and Responsive Research

June 25, 2019 Center for Produce Safety

The Grower Shipper Association of Central California staff joined farmers, farming companies, scientists, trade organization representatives and public health officials at the annual Center for Produce Safety (CPS) Research Symposium in Austin, Texas last week. …

CPS GRABIT Award and Innovation Challenge

January 17, 2019 Center for Produce Safety

The Center for Produce Safety announced $500,000 is available to fund the center’s first Innovation Challenge. …