Though she is a California state employee, Ms. Anderson was working on behalf of the food industry, part of the latest experiment in improving safety.
Under the agreement, the produce industry pays the California Department of Agriculture about $1 million a year to perform about 500 inspections, a fifth of them unannounced. Participation in marketing agreements is voluntary, but in California, more than 95 percent of the leafy greens industry signed up, in part because major processors like Dole and Fresh Express agreed to participate
To read more about self-regulation in the lettuce industry, click on the following: Cobbled Effort Seeks to Fill Food Safety Vacuum - NYTimes.com
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