MSU Extension Agrifood Safety

Resources

• Maintaining a Cold Chain

  This guidance document and episode review best practices to ensure food safety compliance when using refrigeration.

• Footbaths for Animal Facilities

  Human footwear is often not cleaned, and therefore can introduce diseases onto the farm. In this document, you'll learn how to make a foot bath for your farm, which is an easy, inexpensive way to reduce these risks.

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  Soil Amendment Storage

  Soil amendment treatment (compost) process monitoring SOP

• Farm Food Safety Words

  This document gives examples of important food safety phrases to know in both English and Spanish.

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  Farmworker Produce Safety Training Tools

  This presentation trains farm managers and crew leaders to conduct successful produce safety training programs.

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  Manure Use

  This document will lead users through the recommended use and storage of raw manure to ensure GAP and FSMA PSR compliance.

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  Food Safe Compost Use

  This guidance document will walk you through the recommended steps for effective compost use while ensuring GAP and FSMA compliance.

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  Rodent and Bird Control

  This guidance document addresses due diligence for rodent and vertebrate pest control and offers a standard operating procedure (SOP) boilerplate that can be adapted to your farm and help address rodents and other vertebrates in storage and packing areas.

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  Manure

  Manure and Organic Fertilizers Segment 2: Manure

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  Refrigerated Truck Checklist

  Refrigerated Truck Checklist