Evidence for the efficacy of pre-harvest agricultural practices in mitigating food-safety risks to fresh produce in North America
2023
Devarajan, Naresh | Weller, Daniel | Jones, Matthew | Adell, Aiko | Adhikari, Achyut | Allende, Ana | Arnold, Nicole | Baur, Patrick | Beno, Sarah | Clements, Donna | Olimpi, Elissa | Critzer, Faith | Green, Hyatt | Gorski, Lisa | Ferelli Gruber, Angela | Kovac, Jasna | Mcgarvey, Jeffery | Murphy, Claire | Murphy, Sarah | Navarro-Gonzalez, Nora | Owen, Jeb | Pires, Alda | Richard, Nicole | Samaddar, Sandipan | Schmidt, Radomir | Scow, Kate | Shariat, Nikki | Smith, Olivia | Spence, Austin | Stoeckel, Don | Tran, Thao | Wall, Gretchen | Karp, Daniel | University of California [Davis] (UC Davis) ; University of California (UC) | University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) | Cascade Agroecology | Universidad Andrés Bello [Santiago] (UNAB) | Louisiana State University [BatonRouge] (LSU) | Centro de Edafologia y Biologia aplicada del Segura (CEBAS - CSIC) ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] (CSIC) | The Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU) | University of Rhode Island (URI) | Birmingham-Southern College | Cornell University [New York] | Virginia Tech [Blacksburg] | University of Georgia [USA] | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) ; State University of New York (SUNY) | USDA-ARS : Agricultural Research Service | The Acheson Group (TAG The Acheson Group) | Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) ; Penn State System | Biologie, Epidémiologie et analyse de risque en Santé Animale (BIOEPAR) ; École nationale vétérinaire, agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes-Atlantique (ONIRIS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Washington State University (WSU) | Michigan State University [East Lansing] ; Michigan State University System | International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) | Funding for this research was made possible by the Center for Produce Safety (Grant# 2019CPS03), by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) AgriculturalMarketing Service through grant USDA-AMS-TM-SCBG-G-18-003, and by USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Program 104: Food Safety (animal and plant products). All opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Center for Produce Safety and/or the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]英语. Consumption of contaminated produce remains a leading cause of foodborne illness. Increasingly, growers are altering agricultural practices and farm environments to manage food-safety hazards, but these changes often result in substantial economic, social, and environmental costs. Here, we present a comprehensive evidence synthesis evaluating the efficacy of soil, non-crop vegetation, animal, landscape, and irrigation water management strategies aimed at reducing produce-safety risk in North America. We systematically summarized findings from 78 peer-reviewed papers on the effect of 21 management practices on the prevalence, abundance, or survival of four foodborne pathogens (i.e., E. coli, Salmonella spp., Listeria spp ., and Campylobacter spp .), resulting in 113 summaries. We then organized a 30-member expert panel, who used these summaries to evaluate the impact of each practice on food-safety outcomes. While more than half of the practices were too understudied to confidently evaluate their impact on food safety, the panel did identify several practices that were associated with reduced preharvest food-safety risks, including not using raw manure, separating crop and livestock production, and choosing low-risk irrigation sources. The panel also identified practices that appear ineffective at reducing food-safety risks, such as the removal of non-crop vegetation. Overall, these findings provide insights into the food-safety impacts of agricultural and land management practices that growers, auditors, and extension personnel can use to co-manage produce preharvest environments for food safety and other aims.
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