Family Farm Food Safety Campaign
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The Issue

What's at Risk

What You Can Do

Leafy Green Marketing Agreement

CAFF in the News

CAFF Advocacy

CAFF Says

Press

Reports

Gov't Reports

CAFF Advocacy

  • Read our Fall Action Alert!

  • See CAFF's letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein about her Leafy Green Amendment for the Farm Bill.  CAFF supports Senator Feinstein's decision to not offer this inappropriate amendment!

  • Comments presented by Judith Redmond, on June 4, 2007 (452 kb)
  • CAFF Comments on Food Safety, submitted on Feb. 27, 2007 to the Joint Assembly and Senate Committees on Agriculture Informational Hearing (96 kb)

 

CAFF Says:

Sacramento Valley Livestock-Crop Interface and Foodborne Illness Prevention Meeting Presentation,

Judith Redmond, April 18, 2007 (pdf)

Food Safety?, by Dave Runsten, Executive Director of CAFF, Agrarian Advocate, Summer 2007  (pdf)

Leafy Greens & Food Safety, Agrarian Advocate, Spring 2007 (pdf)

"Food Safety & Sustainable Agriculture" by Dave Runsten, Executive Director of CAFF, Agrarian Advocate, Fall 2006 (216 kb, pdf)

See What You Can Do!

Learn more!

Find out who else is involved in this important issue.

Click here for Reports:

Government Reports

Leafy Green Marketing Agreement!

 

More CAFF in the News

See us in the Daily Grist

Farm Groups Split on How to Protect Your Salad: Cindy Skrzycki, Bloomberg.com, Dec. 11, 2007

Politics of the Plate, Barry Estabrook, Epicurious.com, Dec. 10, 2007

Small Farms and Consumer Group Oppose Federal Marketing Agreement, Joan Murphy, Dec. 4, 2007

Click here for Bon Appetit's Op-Ed, Blog and more press!

CAFF Disputes Proposed Leafy Greens Order, Amy Sung, Supermarket News, Nov. 26, 2007

Small Farms Feel Financial Sting from New Food Safety Regulations, Celia Lamb, Sacramento Business Journal, Sept. 28, 2007

Herbivore’s Dilemma:

Bagged salad recall renews calls for the government-regulated greens, Monterey County Weekly, Zachary Stahl, Sept. 27, 2007

Dole: E. coli may be from here
It's undetermined, but some lettuce in tainted salad is from Salinas Valley, The Salinas Californian
By Dawn Withers, Sept. 19, 2007

A year later, ag industry chastened and changed
'9/14' lives on as a day of infamy, The Salinas Californian
By Dawn Withers, Sept. 14, 2007

 

CAFF Press Releases

 

To see Leafy Greens Press, click here!

 
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Leafy Greens at Risk

  • iceberg lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • green leaf lettuce
  • red leaf lettuce
  • butter lettuce
  • baby leaf lettuce
  • escarole
  • endive
  • spring mix
  • spinach
  • cabbage
  • kale
  • arugula
  • chard

 

Fact Box

  1. According to CAFF's     analysis of data provided by the U.S. Food and Drug
    Administration, since 1999, 98.5 percent of the
    reported California-sourced E.coli 0157 illnesses were traced to processed, bagged salad (that the industry calls "fresh-cut").
    See the Analysis Chart!

  2.   Biological farming promotes healthy soil in which food pathogens (such as E.coli 0157) have to compete with other microbes and are less likely to thrive.

  3. Conservation practices on the farm have been shown to filter water, reducing food contaminating pathogens and improving water quality.

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