The Pacific Northwest Food SafetyCommittee, an industry advisory group representing tree fruit growers, packers, and researchers, was organized in 2007 to guide the Northwest tree fruit industry and Northwest Horticultural Council on food safety issues. Since its inception, the committee has worked with industry and university food safety experts and researchers to coordinate and fund research to better assess microbial risks in the fresh tree fruit industry. In the last four years, the Food Safety Committee has helped coordinate spending of more than $1 million on research dealing with tree fruit food safety and microbial pathogens. Projects have been funded […]