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GAPs Quick Start: Food Safety Guidelines on the Farm

Learn practical food safety guidelines for farms to ensure the safety of your produce. Discover the challenges of food safety and how to conduct internal audits. Implement Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and keep essential records to improve your farm's operations. Develop a simple lot coding program and stay updated on future requirements like universal barcodes and pathogen testing.

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GAPs Quick Start: Food Safety Guidelines on the Farm

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  1. GAPs Quick Start: Introduction to Practical Food Safety Guidelines on the Farm

  2. One of these tomatoes has 100 Salmonella, One has 100 E. coli O157:H7, 3 are contaminant-free; Which is Which?

  3. If only plants would let us know if there is an invisible risk.

  4. Food Safety Challenges • Chemical • Physical • Biological • Microbial • Allergens • Toxins

  5. GAP Awareness and Self-Audit Resources

  6. http://ucgaps.ucdavis.edu UCGAPs Quick Start Resources

  7. Start With An Internal Audit • Conduct internal audits for each management and unit operation • An internal audit should be done at start-up and at least once more in a season or within a 12 month period • Define your own corrective actions

  8. Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for Growers: Quick Start Self-Audit 

  10. Site Selection Adjacent Land Activities Crop Production Pest Management Harvest Management Transport Consumer Postharvest Operations Customer Transport Short-term Storage What Might a Process Flow Plan for a Small Farm Operation Look Like?

  11. Essential Record-Keeping: Prepare a Farm and Operations Map • Parcel number and acreage • Primary and secondary roads • All ponds, creeks, seasonal water • Wells; active and inactive • All irrigation conveyances and lines • All drainage and return-pump systems • Subsurface tiles and conduits • All buildings and seasonal structures • …… and more

  12. Implementing GAPs Step 1: Construct a Self-Audit of Potential Hazards • Site selection • Animal influences • Fertility inputs • Water inputs • Irrigation • Foliar sprays • Harvest • Human influences • Worker hygiene • Postharvest water and handling • Sanitation – field and equipment • Traceability plan Record Keeping is Essential ! Oso Ranch1 Block 2 Baby Spinach Land Prep Pest Control Irrigation Packing

  13. Keep Documents and Records • organized • accessible • complete • use them to improve It doesn’t have to be fancy SOPs & SSOPS

  14. Develop a Farm Operations Ledger: Lot, Preharvest, Harvest, Packing, and Shipping • Handwritten is fine • Can move to computer records • Next step- handheld data recorders

  15. GW23C4209gt Grape tomato Julian Date Grower Ranch Lot Develop a Simple Lot Coding Program • Grower, Ranch, Block • Date of harvest • Lot • Harvest crew • Date of packing • Packing line • Product Code • etc. Approx. $26.00/stamp

  16. Universal Bar Codes Will Be Required in Future

  17. Commodity-Specific Guidelines and BMPs Will Include Traceability and Pathogen Testing July 2008

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