*Title: Small Farm Food Safety
Source: University of California, Davis and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Description: The Small Farm Food Safety website has a wide range of resources on food safety from farm to fork with a focus on topics such as general farm food safety, work health, soil amendments, wildlife and domestic animals, agricultural water, and postharvest. While relevant for many farming operations, this resource has a specific focus on food safety considerations for the unique context of small-scale farming operations. These resources are available in multiple languages.
Title: Food Safety Plan Template
Source: CA Alliance with Family Farmers
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Description: This resource provides a range of templates and guides to completing a food safety plan for a farming operation (multiple languages available). In addition, this resource includes other templates for food safety recordkeeping such as a wide range of logs (e.g. sanitization, harvest, recall, etc.). There is a free webinar that walks through creating a food safety plan that complements the templates available through this resource.
Title: FSMA Inspection Case Study: New Natives Farm
Source: CA Alliance with Family Farmers
Last updated: 2022
Description: Farming operations must go through a farm inspection if they meet the eligibility requirements outlined by FSMA. This resource provides a useful case study of the inspection process performed on a small, diversified farm. In addition to providing an overview of the inspection process, this resource provides some question topics that may be asked by the food safety inspector.
Title: Produce Safety Alliance
Source: Cornell University, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and USDA
Last updated: As recently as 2024, resource dependent
Description: The Produce Safety Alliance provides fundamental, science-based farm food safety resources and trainings for all interested in the safety of fresh produce. There is a wide range of resources to both learn about aspects of on-farm food safety as well as useful educational tools for TA providers to utilize in their work (See Resources -> Trainer resources). There are trainings available through their train-the-trainer program as well as a directory of contacts across the state that have completed the training course.