A circular food system is one in which food waste is processed to recover plant nutrients and
returned to the soil to enable the production of more food, rather than being diverted to …

Listeria monocytogenes is an increasing food safety concern throughout the produce supply
chain as it has been linked to produce associated outbreaks and recalls. To our knowledge …

Foodborne illness outbreaks linked to fresh produce are becoming more frequent and
widespread. High impact outbreaks, such as that associated with spinach contaminated with …

Outbreaks of produce-related food-borne pathogens have undergone a sharp increase in
last three decades because of high produce consumption. A paradigm of food safety for …

Foodborne outbreaks appear to increase with more incidences linked to fresh produce and
derived food products. This indicates inadequacies in Food Safety Management Systems …

Irrigation water contaminated with Salmonella enterica and Listeria monocytogenes may
provide a route of contamination of raw or minimally processed fruits and vegetables. While …

The current quality assurance and control tools and methods to prevent and/or to control
microbiological risks associated with fresh produce are challenged due to the following …

Plants are increasingly considered as secondary reservoirs for commensal and pathogenic
E scherichia coli strains, but the ecological and functional factors involved in this association …

Process wash water and washed products from three different fresh produce processing
lines were characterized at commercial scale. Different physicochemical and microbiological …

Consumption of fresh bagged spinach contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia
coli (STEC) has led to severe illness and death; however current culture-based methods to …