date:May 01, 2013
Carolina is one of the industrys responses to those outbreaks. The groups leader said it also reflects a desire among producers to improve safety.
They felt a need to identify how they could improve and enhance the confidence of the consumer in the cantaloupe product, said Charles Hall, executive director of the ECGA. We were seeing a trend of consumption going down somewhat.
Hall said members of the group agree to undergo an initial food-safety audit - called a Global Food Safety Initiative a