food safety
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California strawberry growers and farm workers pick safety
“Strawberry farmers are working diligently to protect farm workers while providing a consistent supply of this nutritious fruit to consumers,” said Carolyn O’Donnell of the California Strawberry Commission. I Pick Safety is a new effort from the California Strawberry Commission to highlight farm worker safety, industry-leading training, and safety practices by emphasizing that everybody is responsible to always pick safety.
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Enhanced safety practices key to prevent COVID-19 on California strawberry farms
Commission staff have developed Standard Operating Procedures and customized training tools reflecting federal, state, and localized guidelines for implementation in strawberry fields. Over the past nine weeks, the California Strawberry Commission’s (CSC) bilingual outreach and training team has been in the fields providing guidance and training to ensure the safety of its workforce in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protecting the health and safety of each and every worker is the goal of the commission’s outreach campaign.
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Farmworker vaccinations expand with new clinics in California
Farmworkers get information about Corona-19 vaccines at one of the clinics co-sponsored by the California Strawberry Commission. COVID-19 vaccines are now widely available to strawberry farmworkers and other essential workers throughout California.
The California Strawberry Commission recently co-sponsored eight vaccine clinics that vaccinated more than 5,000 farmworkers in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Last month, the strawberry commission began working with Dignity Health Dominican Hospital and the local, Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau to co-sponsor the first large-scale vaccination clinic for farmworkers on the Central Coast.