Pathogens that cause foodborne illness can contaminate raw‐agricultural produce via
animal intrusion and defecation in production fields. The Food and Drug Administration's …

Context Conservation in working landscapes is critical for halting biodiversity declines and
ensuring farming system sustainability. However, concerns that wildlife may carry foodborne …

Wild birds pose a difficult food safety risk to manage because they can avoid traditional
wildlife mitigation strategies, such as fences. Birds often use agricultural fields and structures …

Leafy green vegetables (LGVs) have large surface areas and can be colonized by various
microorganisms including pathogens. In this study, we investigated the effect of pre-harvest …

Fresh produce can be contaminated by enteric pathogens throughout crop production,
including through contact with contaminated agricultural water. The most common outbreaks …

Because birds can carry foodborne pathogens, widespread concern exists that birds impose
food‐safety risks to farms. Growers are thus often encouraged to deter birds and forego …

The following reports on the efficacy of a gas‐phase hydroxyl radical‐based process for
decontaminating shredded lettuce on a laboratory and simulated commercial scale. The …

Objectives 1. Combine research team's pathogen database with new Campylobacter,
Salmonella, and STEC tests from field-collected feces—focus on under-sampled species …