Food safety for the Australian mushroom industry (MU16005)

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.