Identifying Food Safety Risks on Indigenous Food Sovereignty Gardens

The goals of this program are:1. Increase awareness of FSMA regulations on food sovereignty gardens by operators;2. Increase knowledge of good food safety practices for produce harvested by tribal food sovereignty programs for market;3. Increase knowledge of safe handling practices by consumers of produce grown at food sovereignty gardens;4. Identify risk sources at each garden site;5. Train a resource person who can answer questions about food safety and FSMA compliance for all the tribal food sovereignty programs in the Eastern Sierra;6. Utilize tribal employees to conduct food safety assessments at each site to maintain sovereignty of each tribe;7. Identify culturally sensitive practices that may require a request for a tribal exemption to FSMA;8. Determine if each garden will qualify for an exemption to FSMA based on sales or if it will be required to comply.