“Mystifying, isn’t it?” said Trevor Suslow, a food safety expert at the University of California, Davis. Clad in neon vests and jeans, they drove from field to field, examining soil, surveying plants and testing water. In her years of testing water from this underground well, she never has found a sample with fecal contamination high enough to violate industry standards. Mike Villaneva, the agreement’s technical director, said he hopes growers elsewhere soon will get on board with water testing. Then he worked for the FDA as a food safety scientist for several years.

Source: Huffington Post September 27, 2018 15:22 UTC