Open AccessWhole Farm Water Use: A Survey of Vegetable Producers in New England States | 2018
Author(s) -
Rachel E. Schattman,
Vern Grubinger,
Lisa McKaeg,
Katie Nelson
Publication year - 2018
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.32747/2018.6938606.ch
Subject(s) - food safety , hazard , business , identification (biology) , outbreak , environmental health , agricultural economics , environmental planning , geography , economics , medicine , chemistry , botany , organic chemistry , pathology , virology , biology
Produce safety and climate change are two overlapping risks that face vegetable producers in the
northeastern United States. Because of recent public health outbreaks (and subsequent litigation) traced
back to fresh produce, food safety hazard identification and risk mitigation has become the focus of
significant regulatory changes in the United States (FDA 2015)