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Completed project

Food safety for the Australian mushroom industry (MU16005)

Publication date: August 29, 2018

Delivery Partner: Fresh Produce Safety Centre A-NZ

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    What was it all about?

    This investment investigated food safety risks within mushroom production systems. It was responsible for:

    • Bringing together existing research and information on food safety in Australia’s mushroom industry, and on foodborne pathogens including listeria species, salmonella species and coli

    • Conducting surveys on mushroom farms to look at pathogen loads in compost, on casing and on fresh mushrooms over a 12-month period

    • Using a lab-based trial to investigate the potential for change in microbial loads over time for a range of processing and food chain scenarios.
    Details

    This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Mushroom Fund

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