Completed Competitive Grant

Safe food handling practices on the farm: Meeting the needs of foodservice operations

Project ID: M2007-36

Abstract

Local food producers need to be aware and up-to-date on the ways to handle food safely. A pilot workshop was conducted and used as the basis for communicating food safety practices most efficiently.

Key Question: How can we improve salability of food products by local farmers to retail foodservice operations that have concerns about product safety?

Findings: This project raised awareness among Iowa farmers selling food crops to retail foodservices about the importance of documentation of on-farm food safety practices

Lead investigator: Catherine Strohbehn, ISU Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management, et al

Year of grant completion: 2009

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Marketing Initiative.

Topics: Community-based food systems, Fruit and vegetables

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