Support of Center for Produce Safety Research Quest Continues To Grow

By Center for Produce Safety|January 24, 2022

Citrus producers from across the Golden State are making a collective $500,000 contribution to the Center for Produce Safety’s research capital campaign to fund produce-specific food safety research. Their funds will support CPS’s work to identify industry’s top produce safety questions, call on researchers to answer them, then transfer learnings to industry, government, public health, and other stakeholders.

Since its founding in 2007, the Center for Produce Safety funds research that must be scientifically defensible and of industry importance. Most projects are completed in 1 to 2 years; learnings are posted on CPS’s website for all to access. CPS’s current research priorities include evaluating agricultural water treatments, cleaning and sanitizing for dry facilities, mitigating and preventing Listeria, and more.

CPS spreads its research learnings through a range of tools, including an online research database, emails and webinars, columns in trade media outlets, social media and an annual Research Symposium – held virtually via webinars in 2020 and 2021.

The Center for Produce Safety launched its latest research fundraising campaign publicly in January 2021, after a quiet phase in 2020.

For more details and a comprehensive list of growers and companies that have contributed to CPS’s new fundraising campaign, continue reading at centerforproducesafety.org.