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Hal King, Ph.D., is managing partner of Active Food Safety, www.activefoodsafety.com, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Food Safety Magazine. He can be reached at halking@activefoodsafety.com.
Only when the most effective controls are consistently deployed will significant reduction in infectious diseases in retail foodservice businesses occur.
Outbreaks of foodborne diseases from fresh and fresh-cut produce continue to occur in the United States. The variables related to the degree of microbial pathogen contamination of produce are very high.