TEXAS: Produce Safety and Security International Ohio facilities will be operational to provide certifed food safe tomatoes and all fresh produce items - (Trading Markets)
June 11, 2008 – 6:37 pmIrving, TX — Produce Safety & Security International, Inc. announced today that the company’s food safe treatment centers in Ohio will be using a cost-effective ozone process to prevent food-borne pathogens and viruses to provide certified food safe tomatoes and produce to the food industry.
Produce Safety & Security will provide a food safe process on the truck or in the processing room. The process can be performed as the truck is backed up to the dock or unloaded into an ozone air processing room to remove the food-borne illness pathogens and help prevent outbreaks of illness.
Tomato growers in Florida, California and Mexico are having trouble selling their crops as U.S. regulators hunt the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to certain tomato varieties. Growers said on Tuesday. In Florida, the No.1 U.S. tomato producer, $40 million worth of tomatoes will rot unless the U.S. Food and Drug Administration quickly trace’s […]
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