T07 Produce Technical Session

Glen 206
Convenors: Lawrence Goodridge and Bassam Annous

1:30 T7-01 Factors Affecting Attachment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to Apple Tissues Peyman Fatemi, Stephen J. Knabel, Luke F. LaBorde, Bassam A. Annous, and Gerald M. Sapers, ERRC-ARS-USDA, Wyndmoor, PA, USA

1:45 T7-02 Effects of Seasonality on the Pre-Harvest Escherichia coli Prevalence of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables—Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, Dorinda Speh, and Avik Mukherjee, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

2:00 T7-03 Water Pressure Effectively Reduces Salmonella Enteritidis on the Surface of Raw Almonds—John Willford, Aubrey Mendonca, and Lawrence Goodridge, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA

2:15 T7-04 The Effect of Ozone and ‘Open Air Factor’ against Aerosolized and Surface Attached Micrococcus luteus— Louise Fielding, Roger Bailey, Andy Young, and Chris Griffith, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK

2:30 T7-05 Growth of Listeria monocytogenes and a Sigma B Mutant in Soil and on Radishes Grown in Contaminated Soil— Lisa Gorski, Denise Flaherty, and Jessica M. Duhé, USDA-ARS-WRRC, Albany, CA, USA

2:45 T7-06 Evaluation of Citrobacter youngae as an Environmental Surrogate for Enteric Bacterial Pathogens on Produce— Paula Martins de Freitas and Trevor Suslow, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA

3:00 T7-07 Persistence of Indicator Bacteria in Agricultural Soils Following Winter Flooding Events— Misty Johnstone, Paula Martins de Freitas, Steven Koike, Katherine Kammeijer, and Trevor Suslow, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA

3:15 T7-08 Compost Tea from a Food Safety Perspective— Lindsay Arthur, Sandra Jones, Hugh Martin, and Grant Campbell, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Guelph, ON, Canada