- Author: Mary E. Reed
Dr. Jim Gorny executive director of the UCD Postharvest Technology Research & Information Center (PTRIC) was an invited guest speaker at a “Postharvest and Minimal Processing of Fruits and Vegetables; Quality and Safety” short course offered December 3-5, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. At the three day short hosted by the Instituto Superior de Agronomia at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Dr. Gorny discussed good agricultural practices employed in the USA that enhance the safety of fresh-cut produce and modified atmosphere packaging design for fresh-cut produce. He was also joined by ICPT (http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/icpt/index.shtml) collaborator Dr. Luis Cisneros from Texas A&M University.
The course attracted more that 65 participants from all sectors of the Portuguese produce and retail produce industry as well as undergraduate and graduate students from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. The Postharvest Center wishes to express special thanks to Dr. Maria Luisa Beirão da Costa and Dr. Sara Beirão da Costa at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia whom served as conference organizers and hosts, for extending an invitation and financially supporting PTRIC's participation in this important event. "This was an excellent opportunity for PTRIC to collaborate with another leading institution to provide industry and future industry leaders with working knowledge regarding how to effectively handle and market, safe high quality value added produce" said Jim Gorny.
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