Videos and Webinars
UI Extension and ISDA have partnered to create a variety of online and hard copy resources to help produce growers navigate the Food Safety Modernization Act and the Produce Safety Rule. What other resources would be helpful for you in your operation? Let us know by filling out the online Produce Growers feedback form.
Training videos
Idaho State Department of Agriculture and University of Idaho Extension have partnered to create training videos that illustrate several important key aspects of the Produce Safety Rule. These videos were provided to those who attended a Produce Safety Alliance Training.
Part 1 — Introduction to the FSMA, Produce Safety Rule
Part 2 — Idaho Produce Safety Recordkeeping
Part 3 — Recordkeeping — Agricultural Water
Part 4 — Exemptions and Qualified Exemption
Part 5 — Health and Hygiene
Part 6 — Equipment, Tools, Building and Sanitation
Part 7 — Agricultural Water
Spring 2020 Produce Safety Webinar Series
The first year of FSMA Produce Safety inspections in Idaho revealed a few key areas in which farms can make adjustments to their food safety practices to be in compliance with the rule. What can growers do to be better prepared for inspection or improve in critical areas following an inspection?
Our three-part webinar series is designed to prepare growers for successful inspection by improving their health and hygiene practices, sanitation of buildings, tools and equipment, and recordkeeping.
Creating Hygienic Habits on the Farm
Sanitation Basics
Simplifying Recordkeeping
Grow It, Make It, Sell It — Safely Webinar Series
We offer free food safety webinar courses for small scale growers and specialty food producers in the Pacific Northwest. This series of webinars is provided by the University of Idaho Extension in partnership with the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Oregon State University and Washington State University Extension offices. These webinars focus on covering Produce Safety Rule basics, sanitation practices, biological soil amendments, preventative controls in food safety and good manufacturing basics.
Missed a webinar you are interested in? No problem. Review past webinar recordings any time by selecting the webinar, click on “Watch the recording,” then sign in with your Google account to fill out the form for access to recorded webinar.