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Food Safety
Food Safety
With the FDA Produce Safety Rule and current development of the Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption- Draft Guidance for Industry, all involved in the produce industry are focused on reducing the risk of fecal contamination. Man's best friend can play a role in this goal!
Research Results
Research Results
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We determined that use of a scent detection dog to screen samples for testing can increase the probability of detecting >0.025 grams of fecal contamination by 500 to 3,000% when samples with fecal contamination are rare (<1%).
PARTYKA, M.L., BOND, R.F., FARRAR, J., FALCO, A., CASSENS, B., CRUSE, A, AND ATWILL, E.R., (2014). Quantifying the Sensitivity of Scent Detection Dogs To Identify Fecal Contamination on Raw Produce. Journal of Food Protection, Vol. 77, No. 1, 2014, Pages 6–14.
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What The Research Suggests
What The Research Suggests
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Scent detection dogs, if appropriately trained, can detect relatively small amounts of fecal contamination in produce samples, while generating relatively few false positive alerts.
PARTYKA, M.L., BOND, R.F., FARRAR, J., FALCO, A., CASSENS, B., CRUSE, A, AND ATWILL, E.R., (2014). Quantifying the Sensitivity of Scent Detection Dogs To Identify Fecal Contamination on Raw Produce. Journal of Food Protection, Vol. 77, No. 1, 2014, Pages 6–14.
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Research Conclusion
Research Conclusion
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Scent detection dogs appear capable of directly detecting low levels of fecal contamination on romaine lettuce, cilantro, spinach, and roma tomatoes and thereby elevate the probability that an investigator, grower, or processor can successfully detect produce samples with fecal contamination before harvest.
PARTYKA, M.L., BOND, R.F., FARRAR, J., FALCO, A., CASSENS, B., CRUSE, A, AND ATWILL, E.R., (2014). Quantifying the Sensitivity of Scent Detection Dogs To Identify Fecal Contamination on Raw Produce. Journal of Food Protection, Vol. 77, No. 1, 2014, Pages 6–14.
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