Evidence for the efficacy of pre-harvest agricultural practices in mitigating food-safety risks to fresh produce in North America

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Sustainable Food Systems

Jeffery McGarvey¹  Lisa Gorski¹  Ana Allende²  Matthew Jones³  Sarah M. Beno⁴  Daniel L. Weller⁵  Jeb P. Owen⁶  Hyatt Green⁷  Elissa M. Olimpi⁸  Nicole Richard⁹  Patrick Baur⁹  Claire M. Murphy^1,10  Donna Clements^1,11  Jasna Kovac^1,12  Kate Scow^1,13  Sandipan Samaddar^1,13  Alda F. A. Pires^1,14  Nikki W. Shariat^1,15  Sarah I. Murphy^1,16  Austin R. Spence^1,17  Daniel S. Karp^1,17  Naresh Devarajan^1,17  Thao D. H. Tran^1,17  Olivia M. Smith^1,18  Aiko D. Adell^1,19  Don Stoeckel^2,20  Faith Critzer^2,20  Radomir Schmidt^2,21  Gretchen Wall^2,22  Nicole L. Arnold^2,23  Nora Navarro-Gonzalez^2,24  Achyut Adhikari^2,25  Angela Ferelli Gruber^2,26 

[1] Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA, United States;CEBAS-CSIC, Spanish National Research Council, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain;Cascade Agroecology, Wenactchee, WA, United States;Department of Biology, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL, United States;Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States;Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States;Department of Environmental Biology, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, United States;Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States;Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States;Department of Food Science and Technology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States;Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States;Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States;Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States;Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States;Department of Population Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States;Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States;Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States;Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States;Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile;Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States;Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States;International Fresh Produce Association, Washington, DC, United States;Ohio State University Extension and Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States;Oniris, INRAE, BIOEPAR, Nantes, France;School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Louisiana State University, BatonRouge, LA, United States;The Acheson Group, Bigfork, MT, United States;

关键词: evidence synthesis;    farming practice;    foodborne pathogen;    food safety;    fresh produce;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fsufs.2023.1101435

 received in 2022-11-17, accepted in 2023-04-10,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Consumption of contaminated produce remains a leading cause of foodborne illness. Increasingly, growers are altering agricultural practices and farm environments to manage food-safety hazards, but these changes often result in substantial economic, social, and environmental costs. Here, we present a comprehensive evidence synthesis evaluating the efficacy of soil, non-crop vegetation, animal, landscape, and irrigation water management strategies aimed at reducing produce-safety risk in North America. We systematically summarized findings from 78 peer-reviewed papers on the effect of 21 management practices on the prevalence, abundance, or survival of four foodborne pathogens (i.e., E. coli, Salmonella spp., Listeria spp., and Campylobacter spp.), resulting in 113 summaries. We then organized a 30-member expert panel, who used these summaries to evaluate the impact of each practice on food-safety outcomes. While more than half of the practices were too understudied to confidently evaluate their impact on food safety, the panel did identify several practices that were associated with reduced preharvest food-safety risks, including not using raw manure, separating crop and livestock production, and choosing low-risk irrigation sources. The panel also identified practices that appear ineffective at reducing food-safety risks, such as the removal of non-crop vegetation. Overall, these findings provide insights into the food-safety impacts of agricultural and land management practices that growers, auditors, and extension personnel can use to co-manage produce preharvest environments for food safety and other aims.

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Copyright © 2023 Devarajan, Weller, Jones, Adell, Adhikari, Allende, Arnold, Baur, Beno, Clements, Olimpi, Critzer, Green, Gorski, Ferelli Gruber, Kovac, McGarvey, Murphy, Murphy, Navarro-Gonzalez, Owen, Pires, Richard, Samaddar, Schmidt, Scow, Shariat, Smith, Spence, Stoeckel, Tran, Wall and Karp.