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<ol><li>Investigate causes and extent of failure to meet the FDA's voluntary Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) by minority farmers. <li>Develop innovative Extension food-safety strategies and interventions programs, including use of DVD videos, two-way Internet training, and TV outreach. <li>Disseminate strategies and intervention programs, especially to minority-serving institutions and the Pacific Island counties. </ol>
Use emerging social marketing research techniques to determine barriers and motivations to implement GAP and GMP. 2. Create Extension educational media tools to reach target minority farmers. 3. Disseminate research findings, and Extension materials nationally and internationally, especially to tribal colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, Pacific Island counties and territories, and any program serving under-served and hard-to-reach clients.
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America's fresh fruits and vegetables often come from America's border areas and are field processed and packed by farmers and workers who do not receive traditional forms of food safety information. Food safety experts have long recognized the importance of these border areas as a food safety hedge against invading food safety concerns coming into the USA. This proposal combines the expertise of two minority-serving universities in food safety education, research and media production to develop an integrated research, education and Extension program for Hispanics, Pacific Island minorities, Native Peoples, and fresh produce farmers with limited resources.