date:Mar 31, 2014
or irrigation or pesticide treatments, and harvest and post-harvest on-farm cross-contamination by food handlers and equipment.
For both Salmonella and norovirus, processes at primary production which wet the edible portions of the crop represent the highest risk and these include spraying prior to harvest, direct application of fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural chemicals and overhead irrigation. Subsurface or drip irrigation which results in no wetting of the edible portions of th