More Data Needed to Support Pre-harvest Food Safety Interventions

摘要

In recent meetings with USDA, FDA, NSF, EPA, the Office of Management and Budget and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, key leaders from The American Phytopathological Society (APS) Public Policy Board (PPB) addressed concerns related to human pathogens on plants and noted that significantly more research is needed to ensure national food safety. "Plant pathologists are well positioned to provide valuable knowledge on these issues, given their unique expertise investigating thecomplex relationships between microbes and plants," stated Jacque Fletcher, APS Public Policy Board Chair and regent's professor of plant pathology at Oklahoma State University.