Over 50 recommended changes were unanimously approved by the LGMA Board to strengthen food safety requirements for the production of leafy greens in the areas of farm water use and field/equipment sanitation.
The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) Board recently voted to accept several updates to required food safety practices for the farming of leafy greens.
Scott Horsfall, CEO of LGMA, explained that the most recent updates are the first of many more as the LGMA conducts a complete review of all its mandatory food safety practices, or metrics, in the wake of recent outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce. “A series of Subcommittees have been reviewing the LGMA’s required food safety practices in all areas,” he said. “The Subcommittees for Water Use and Field/Equipment Sanitation met numerous times in recent months to consider new research, examine findings from outbreak investigations, gather input from food safety experts and the public before making recommendations to the full LGMA Board last week. This process is being facilitated by Western Growers as part of an open, transparent process.”
“The LGMA is committed to strengthening required food safety practices throughout our processes,” added Dan Sutton, Chairman of the LGMA and a leafy greens farmer from San Luis Obispo, CA. “We are doing everything possible on our farms to prevent future foodborne illness outbreaks.”
Some of the changes include:
“California and Arizona produce approximately 90 percent of the leafy greens grown in the US,” said Horsfall. “The LGMA programs ensure a unified set of food safety practices based on the last science are being followed on leafy greens farms in these two states.” He added that approved updates will now be forwarded to the California Department of Food and Agriculture to be incorporated into food safety checklists used by Government auditors to verify new practices are being followed on leafy greens farms.
The program will immediately begin educating members on how to comply with the new standards. “Additional updates are forthcoming in the areas of Soil Amendments/Inputs and Adjacent Land as the Subcommittees assigned to these topic areas are currently meeting to review existing practices. These Subcommittees will be making their recommendations to the LGMA Board in the near future,” said Horsfall. “We are very grateful to the industry members and scientists who are working diligently as part of the LGMA Subcommittee process to help improve the safety of leafy greens.”
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