date:Jan 17, 2019
place in leafy greens fields to verify farmers are following all 150 food safety checkpoints that are part of each LGMA audit. Each member of the LGMA is audited an average of five times during the year.
Following last springs E. coli outbreak that impacted romaine lettuce from Yuma, AZ, the LGMA added additional requirements to its program that call for enhanced irrigation water testing and increased buffers between large animal operations and leafy greens farms.
The leafy greens community is