Resources
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Soil Amendment Storage
Soil amendment treatment (compost) process monitoring SOP
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Footbaths for Animal Facilities
Human footwear is often not cleaned, and therefore can introduce diseases onto the farm. In this document, you'll learn how to make a foot bath for your farm, which is an easy, inexpensive way to reduce these risks.
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Maintaining a Cold Chain
This guidance document and episode review best practices to ensure food safety compliance when using refrigeration.
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Farm Food Safety Words
This document gives examples of important food safety phrases to know in both English and Spanish.
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Interpreting Water Test Results
This guidance document addresses how to read and understand water testing results and what to do about them.
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Blood and Bodily Fluids Policy Factsheet
This guidance document addresses blood and bodily fluid concerns and offers a blood and bodily fluids policy boiler plate that can be adapted to your farm.
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Annual Water System Inspection Log Example
Annual Water System Inspection log example
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Evaluating Refrigerated Trucks
This guidance document and episode will offer a number of food safety considerations regarding evaluating refrigerated trucks.
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Creating a Google Maps Field Map
An accurate map of your farm is a foundation piece in your GAP manual. Without a clearly drawn map with your fields delineated, it will be difficult for you to prove to your auditors that you can provide a full traceback of your farm’s products.
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Food Safe Compost Use
This guidance document will walk you through the recommended steps for effective compost use while ensuring GAP and FSMA compliance.
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