Produce Food Safety - Good Agricultural Practices
Posted: July 23, 2012
The three events will be held in Kutztown, Leola, and East Earl, Pennsylvania. Come for a walk-through tour with a PDA inspector to review the types of things an auditor looks for. The tour will examine several areas: documentation, water sources, employee policies, behaviors and conditions that increase contamination risks, use and storage of chemicals, and harvest operations. The Kutztown event will also include a No-Till Vegetable Production Field Walk to review a tomato trial in partnership with Rodale Institute to study the viability and implementation of no-till vegetable production systems. The No-Till Vegetable Production Field Walk will showcase new rolled cover crop vegetable production techniques being trialed side-by-side with black plastic production at this and other regional farms.
Learn from one another as we explore ways to improve food production and safety at the farm level. A question and answer session follows with a light snack.
Date: Friday August 10, 2012
Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Address: Weaver’s Meadow View Farm
371 Bowers Road
Kutztown, PA 19530
Date: Tuesday August 14, 2012
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Address: Nelson Nolt Farm
35 Brethren Church Road
Leola, PA 17540
Date: Thursday September 6, 2012
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Address: Moses B. Sensenig Farm
1255 Weaverland Road
East Earl, PA 17519
For more information please contact:
Penn State Extension, Lancaster County
Peggy Fogarty-Harnish
Phone: 717-394-6851
Email: pfogharn@psu.edu
http://extension.psu.edu/food-safety/farm
Contact Information
- Associate Professor of Food Science - Plant Products
