Kansas plain talk

You know the industry is having a rough week when a professor from Kansas State University is saying the fresh produce industry needs to "step up its efforts" to reduce pathogens in the food supply. He doesn't come without credentials, however, despite coming from the breadbasket of the country, not the salad bowl. Douglas Powell is scientific director of the Food Safety Network at Kansas State and worked for ten years to help develop on farm food safety programs for Canadian fresh produce growers