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Commodity-Specific Food Safety Guideline For the Production, Harvest, Storage, and Packing of Potaotes

The Commodity-Specific Food Safety Guidelines for the Production, Harvest, Storage, and Packing of Potatoes is available for industry members to help ensure the continued safety of U.S.-grown potatoes.

The Commodity-Specific Food Safety Guidelines for the Production, Harvest, Storage, and Packing of Potatoes (pdf) is available for industry members to help ensure the continued safety of U.S.-grown potatoes.

This document offers food safety guidance for all companies that produce, harvest, store, pack, and transport potatoes. It also serves as a basic guideline to harmonize all existing food safety programs in how they assess and address food safety hazards. The guidelines are broken down into four sections: I) General Practices, II) Production and Harvest Operations, III) Storage Unit Operations and IV) Packinghouse Unit Operations. Each section lists a set of best practices to address potential food safety issues associated with those specific operations.

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