Tomato Safety Research Needs Workshop
JIFSAN - UF/IFAS 2007
Date: February 21-22, 2007
Location: FDA Harvey W. Wiley Building, College Park, MD
The Tomato Safety Research Needs Workshop, sponsored by the University of Maryland Joint Institute
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) and the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural
Sciences (UF/IFAS), was held February 21-22, 2007 in College Park, Maryland. The two major goals of the
workshop were to prioritize research needed to solve the problem of Salmonella and other human pathogens
in tomatoes and to begin the process of developing a platform for on-going communication and coordination.
Forty scientists representing academia, government, producers and trade groups participated.
This workshop was a follow up to a stakeholder forum on tomato safety organized by Dr. Martha Roberts
(Special Assistant to the Director, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station) held at the University of Florida
in November 2006. Information about the stakeholder forum is available at
http://research.ifas.ufl.edu/tomato/index.asp.
Pre-Meeting Information
Background Information
Results of the Workshop
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