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Government & University Sites
Agricultural
Market News
www.ams.usda.gov/marketnews.htm
Agriculture &
Agri-Food Canada
59
Camelot Drive
Nepean,
Ontario K1A 0Y9
Tel:
(613) 952-8000
Fax:
(613) 991-1131
Aceis.agr.ca
Biotechnology
Information Center
National
Agricultural Library
USDA
10301
Baltimore Avenue
Beltsville,
MD 20705-2351
Tel:
(301) 504-5755
Fax:
(301) 504-5675
Searchable database provides
access to biotechnology applications and issues for produce and food safety.
California
Agricultural Export Program
Tel:
(916) 654-0389
Fax:
(916) 653-2604
http://www.export.cdfa.ca.gov/
California
Department of Food and Agriculture
1220 N Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tel: (800) 675-2427
(916) 654-0466
California
Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Pesticide Regulation
Searchable database for
chemical materials approved for use on a specific crop. Search by Chemical Abstracts Number,
technical or common product name, name of company holding current registration,
or crop name.
Canadian Produce
Marketing Association
310-1101
Prince of Wales Drive
Ottawa,
Ontario K2C 3W7
Tel:
(613) 226-4187
Fax:
(613) 226-2984
Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Pesticide Programs
401
M Street, SW, Room 7506C
Washington,
DC 20460
Tel:
(703) 305-5017
Fax:
(703) 305-5558
Florida
Agricultural Marketing Association
7705
U.S. Hwy. 441
Leesburg,
FL 34788
Tel:
(352) 728-1561
Fax:
(352) 728-5838
Florida Department
of Agriculture & Consumer Services
407
S. Calhoun Street, No. 418
Tallahassee,
FL 32399-0800
Tel:
(850) 922-9827
Fax:
(850) 922-0374
Marketing assistance to
Florida’s agricultural industry, retailers and end-users.
Florida Department
of Citrus
1115
E. Memorial Blvd.
P.O.
Box 148
Lakeland,
FL 33801
Tel:
(941) 499-2500
Fax:
(941) 499-2333
http://www.floridajuice.com/gr_market.php
Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), Information Network on Post-harvest Operations
(InPhO)
A postharvest databank project of FAO that includes a collection of useful information on technologies and products in post-harvest systems. The INPhO Link Data Base contains references that can be accessed by browsing through topics, visiting different kinds of information providers or surfing through various information types.
Food & Drug
Administration (FDA), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
200
C Street, SW, Room 6815B
Washington,
DC 20204
Tel:
(202) 205-4850
Fax:
(202) 205-5025
Information on the National
Food Safety Initiative, Import-Export Inspections, HACCP programs, and
pesticide and chemical contamination of foods (residue survey annual reports).
Hawaii Agriculture
Food Quality and Safety
http://www.hawaiiag.org/foodsafe/foodsaf.htm
Links
to food quality and safety sites.
Information
Network on Postharvest Operations
Postharvest
databank sponsored by FAO.
The National Food
Safety Database
North Carolina State University Cooling and Handling Publications
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/postharv/index.html
South Australian Research & Development Institute (SARDI)
UC Kearney
Agricultural Center, Central Valley Postharvest Newsletter
UC Davis Postharvest Technology Research & Information Center
Mary
Reed, Program Coordinator
Department of Plant Sciences
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis,
CA 95616
Tel:
(530) 752-6941
Fax:
(530) 752-8502
E-mail: postharvest@ucdavis.edu
USDA/Agricultural
Marketing Service/Fruit & Vegetable Division
Washington,
DC
Includes Standards for
Grades of Fruits and Vegetables in downloadable format.
USDA Animal Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
Plant quarantine related
issues.
USDA/Economic
Research Service
1800
M Street NW
Washington,
DC 20036-5831
Tel:
(202) 694-5256
Fax:
(202) 694-5820
Economic information
concerning the U.S. fruit, nut, vegetable, melon and horticulture industries.
Publications containing production, imports, exports, stocks, per capita
utilization, price statistics and analysis.
USDA Food Safety
and Inspection Service
Explanation and details of
the USDA Final Rule on Pathogen Reduction, FSIS HACCP and Pathogen Reduction
program, standard Sanitation Operating Procedures, and generic HACCP models.
Overview and report from the FSIS Sentinel Site Study, a national initiative to
monitor key microbial pathogens.
USDA/Foreign
Agricultural Service/Ag Export Services
USDA,
Mail Stop 1052
Washington,
DC 20250
Tel:
(202) 720-0194
Fax:
(202) 720-1727
Trade leads, foreign buyer
lists and overseas advertising for U.S. exporters. Country- and
commodity-specific foreign market information reports. Basic export counseling
for technical exporting and agricultural trade questions. FAS-operated
assistance with export credits and overseas marketing.
USDA National
Agricultural Statistics Service
University of
Florida Market Information System
www.mis.ifas.ufl.edu/~market/market.html
Archival records of fruit
and vegetable reports by commodity and city.
Washington State University Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center
1100 N. Western Avenue
Wenatchee, WA 98801
Tel: (509) 663-8181
Fax: (509) 663-
Publishes the “Tree Fruit
Postharvest Journal” (free).