Good Worker Health and Hygiene Practices: Training Manual for Produce Handlers
Vol. 2005 No. 6, Historical Fact Sheets
Vol. 2005 No. 6

Good Worker Health and Hygiene Practices: Training Manual for Produce Handlers: FCS8769/FY743, 5/2005

Historical Fact Sheets
https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fy743-2005
Published 2005-06-16
Amy Simonne
University of Florida
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1695-4389
Jeffrey Brecht
University of Florida
Steve Sargent
University of Florida
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5540-7831
Mark Ritenour
University of Florida
Keith Schneider
University of Florida
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0145-3418
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Simonne, Amy, Jeffrey Brecht, Steve Sargent, Mark Ritenour, and Keith Schneider. 2005. “Good Worker Health and Hygiene Practices: Training Manual for Produce Handlers: FCS8769/FY743, 5/2005”. EDIS 2005 (6). Gainesville, FL. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fy743-2005.
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The goal of this first Edition of Good Worker Health and Hygiene Practices: Training Manual for Produce Handlers is to provide owners, managers, and/or supervisors in Florida's produce industry a training tool for their workers. Drawn from many sources in the subject area including the FDA-GAPs, FDA-GMPs, FDA Model Food Code, recommendations from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and other publications from federal government agencies, this manual is designed to be a reference to accompany the other educational materials included in the UF/IFAS Worker Health and Hygiene Training Program.  This document is FCS8769, one of a series of the Family, Youth and Community Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date May 9, 2005. 

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