Produce Food Safety -- Good Agricultural Practices Mock Audit Twilight Meetings
Posted: August 8, 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: 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Address: Weaver's Meadow View Farm
371 Bowers Road
Kutztown, PA 19530
Date: Tuesday August 14, 2012
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Address: Nelson Nolt Farm
35 Brethren Church Road
Leola, PA 17540
Date: Thursday September 6, 2012
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Address: Moses B. Sensenig Farm
1255 Weaverland Road
East Earl, PA 17519
For more information, please contact: Peggy Fogarty-Harnish, Penn State Extension, Lancaster County, (pfogharn@psu.edu), 717-394-6851 -- http://extension.psu.edu/food-safety/farm
