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Microbial Safety of Fresh Produce covers all aspects of produce safety including pathogen ecology, agro-management, pre-harvest and post-harvest interventions, and adverse economic impacts of outbreaks. This most recent edition to the IFT Press book series examines the current state of the problems associated with fresh produce by reviewing the recent, high-profile outbreaks associated with fresh-produce, including the possible internalization of pathogens by plant tissues, and understanding how human pathogens survive and multiply in water, soils, and fresh fruits and vegetables

"Pathologies of Intelligence Producer-Consumer Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

This book is organized into five sections beginning with an introduction in which the problem is described in terms of the number and size of produce related outbreaks, the commodities involved, and the human pathogens involved. The introduction also documents the failure of conventional sanitizing treatments to assure microbiological safety examining the problems of microbial attachment. The second section reviews methods of identifying a contamination source (epidemiology, trace back, strain identification, location of Source) and then focuses on the various sources of microbial contamination (water, manure, airborne dust, wildlife, human activity) and where in the crop production sequence they might result in contamination. In the third section, some of the commodities associated with major outbreaks (leafy vegetables, tomatoes, cantaloupes, apples, berries, sprouts) are examined to determine what characteristics make them especially vulnerable to contamination. The fourth section then addresses means of avoiding produce contamination through use of Good Agricultural Practices and recommendations in FDA and industry guidance documents. Regulatory actions (recalls, restrictions on imports) to safeguard the public from potentially hazardous products are described. Coverage includes policy and practices in the US, Mexico and Central America, Europe and Japan. The fifth section examines current technologies for reducing human pathogens in fresh produce including disinfection, rapid methods for detecting contaminants, irradiation, gas-phase application and best practices acceptable to organic growers, packers and processors

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Wolfram Schlenker -- 1. Heterogeneous Yield Impacts from Adoption of Genetically Engineered Corn and the Importance of Controlling for Weather - Jayson L. Lusk, Jesse Tack, and Nathan P. Hendricks -- 2. Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Weather on US Agricultural Productivity: Evidence and Projection - Sun Ling Wang, Eldon Ball, Richard Nehring, Ryan Williams, and Truong Chau -- 3. Farming under Weather Risk: Adaptation, Moral Hazard, and Selection on Moral Hazard - Hsing- Hsiang Huang and Michael R. Moore -- 4. Intranational Trade Costs, Reallocation, and Technical Change: Evidence from a Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Reform - Mark Brown, Shon M. Ferguson, and Crina Viju-Miljusevic -- 5. Electricity Prices, Groundwater, and Agriculture: The Environmental and Agricultural Impacts of Electricity Subsidies in India - Reena Badiani-Magnusson and Katrina Jessoe -- 6. Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa - Cecilia Bellora, Élodie Blanc, Jean-Marc Bourgeon, and Eric Strobl -- 7. Crop Disease and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model of Verticillium Wilt Management - Christine L. Carroll, Colin A. Carter, Rachael E. Goodhue, and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell -- 8. Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Foods during Drought - Hannah Krovetz, Rebecca Taylor, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.