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The Kitchen Sink: An Overlooked Place for Food Safety

October 03, 2023 Meredith Carothers, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), USDA

We use the kitchen sink for food preparation – rinsing produce, cleaning pots and pans, washing utensils that touch raw meat, and more. With these activities come the possibility for foodborne illness-causing bacteria to hang out in the sink too. If proper food preparation safety steps are not...

Food and Nutrition Health and Safety

1890s Institutions Charging Forth on Specialty Crop Projects through USDA Support

September 18, 2023 USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt

With last month’s announcement of the 2023 Specialty Crop Block Grant awards, the program has reached a milestone of over $1 billion invested into projects to support the U.S. specialty crop industry. Since the program’s inception in 2006, 1890s land-grant universities throughout the country have...

Farming