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    92. The state of the USDA: a quiet dismantling

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lilliston, Ben (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2019-02-04
    Published:
    USA: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10568
    Notes:
    via website, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy., 4 pages.

    93. There's a frog in my salad! A review of online media coverage for wild vertebrates found in prepackaged produce in the United States

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hughes, Daniel F. (author), Green, Michelle L. (author), Warner, Jonathan K. (author), and Davidson, Paul C. (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019
    Published:
    Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: D10701
    Journal Title:
    Science of the Total Environment
    Journal Title Details:
    675: 1-12
    Notes:
    12 pages., via online journal., Prepackaged leafy green vegetables represent one of the fastest growing segments of the fresh-produce industry in the United States. Several steps in the production process have been mechanized to meet the downstream demand for prebagged lettuces. The growth in this market, however, has come with drawbacks, and chief among them are consumers finding wild animals in prepackaged crops. These incidents may signal an overburdened produce supply chain, but we currently lack the information needed to determine if this is a food-safety problem or food-quality concern. Here, we address this gap by reviewing online media coverage of wild vertebrates found in prepackaged produce items by customers in the United States. We discovered 40 independent incidents since 2003 with 95% having occurred during 2008–2018, suggesting that the frequency of incidents may have increased during the last decade. The minority of incidents included wild animals found in organic produce (27.5%), whereas the majority involved conventionally grown crops (72.5%). Most incidents involved amphibians (52.5%) and reptiles (22.5%), while fewer contained mammals (17.5%) and birds (7.5%). Frogs and toads made up all of the amphibian-related incidents, with more than 60% comprising small-bodied treefrogs found in various types of fresh leafy greens. At least seven incidents involved Pacific Treefrogs (Hyliola regilla) and three comprised Green Anoles (Anolis carolinensis). One lizard and nine frogs were found alive, and at least two frogs were released into non-native areas. This is the first review quantifying incidents of vertebrates found by customers in prepackaged produce, yet it remains unclear whether these occurrences indicate a food-safety crisis or a complaint against food quality. Nevertheless, wild animals can spread diseases to humans via contaminated produce, therefore we contend that industry professionals can reduce the potential health risk to their consumers and negative economic consequences to themselves through increased attention to this matter.

    96. Utilization of text mining as a big data analysis tool for food science and nutrition

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Tao, Dandan (author), Yang, Pengkun (author), and Feng, Hao (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11679
    Journal Title:
    Comprehensive Reviews of Food Science and Food Safety
    Journal Title Details:
    19 : 875-894
    Notes:
    20 pages., Via online from the University of Illinois website., Authors' review provided an overview of the data sources, computational methods, and applications of text data in the food industry. Applications of text data analysis were illustrated with respect to food safety and food fraud surveillance, dietary pattern characterization, consumer-opinion mining, new-product development, food knowledge discovery, food supply-chain management, and online food systems.

    97. Visual-based minimal-text food safety training tools for Chinese-speaking food service workers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Rajagopal, Lakshman (author), Reynolds, Joel (author), and Li, Dawei (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-10
    Published:
    Extension Journal, Inc.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10989
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    57(5)
    Notes:
    10 pages., Article # 5TOT4, via online journal., This article describes visual-based minimal-text food safety tools developed in Mandarin Chinese to educate Chinese-speaking food service workers about safe food handling practices. Ten posters and one PowerPoint presentation were developed, and their efficacy in conveying critical food safety messages was tested with Chinese-speaking food service workers in Iowa. Extension educators can use these tools for formal and informal food safety education, thereby contributing to protecting public health.

    99. When farmers are pulled in too many directions: comparing institutional drivers of food safety and environmental sustainability in California agriculture

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Bauer, Patrick (author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    United States: Springer Publishing
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D11896
    Journal Title:
    Agriculture and Human Values
    Journal Title Details:
    37
    Notes:
    20 Pages, Springer Online, Aspirations to farm ‘better’ may fall short in practice due to constraints outside of farmers’ control. Yet farmers face proliferating pressures to adopt practices that align with various societal visions of better agriculture. What happens when the accumulation of external pressures overwhelms farm management capacity? Or, worse, when different visions of better agriculture pull farmers toward conflicting management paradigms? This article addresses these questions by comparing the institutional manifestations of two distinct societal obligations placed on California fruit and vegetable farmers: to practice sustainable agriculture and to ensure food safety. Drawing on the concept of constrained choice, I define and utilize a framework for comparison comprising five types of institutions that shape farm management decisions: rules and standards, market and supply chain forces, legal liability, social networks and norms, and scientific knowledge and available technologies. Several insights emerge. One, farmers are expected to meet multiple societal obligations concurrently; when facing a “right-versus-right” choice, farmers are likely to favor the more feasible course within structural constraints. Second, many institutions are designed to pursue narrow or siloed objectives; policy interventions that aim to shift farming practice should thus anticipate and address potential conflicts among institutions with diverging aspirations. Third, farms operating at different scales may face distinct institutional drivers in some cases, but not others, due to differential preferences for universal versus place-specific policies. These insights suggest that policy interventions should engage not just farmers, but also the intersecting institutions that drive or constrain their farm management choices. As my framework demonstrates, complementing the concept of constrained choice with insights from institutional theory can more precisely reveal the dimensions and mechanisms that bound farmer agency and shape farm management paradigms. Improved understanding of these structures, I suggest, may lead to novel opportunities to transform agriculture through institutional designs that empower, rather than constrain, farmer choice.

    100. Young mothers’ trust of celebrities and influencers for food safety and nutrition information

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Settle, Quisto (author), Harvey, Linnea (author), Ruth, Taylor (author), and Rumble, Joy N. (author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2023
    Published:
    USA: Association for Communication Excellence
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12930
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Applied Communications
    Journal Title Details:
    V.107, Iss.2
    Notes:
    21 pages, Because mothers are the primary grocery shoppers for most households, they play a fundamental role in the food their families eat. As such, it is important to understand their perceptions of potential sources of food safety and nutrition information. This study surveyed young mothers (i.e., 18-40 years old) across the United States to assess their awareness, knowledge, and trust of celebrities and social media influencers who communicate about food-related topics. The list of celebrities and influencers consisted of TV chefs, celebrities and influencers who espouse favorable viewpoints of food and agriculture, and celebrities and influencers who espouse more alternative viewpoints of food and agriculture. Respondents were usually more aware and knowledgeable of the celebrities and chefs than the influencers. They also generally trusted the TV chefs the most. There tended to be small-to-medium positive correlations between a respondents’ knowledge of a celebrity/influencer and their trust of that celebrity/influencer but not all were statistically significant. Communicators looking to influence the largest number of people would benefit more from working with celebrities, but social media influencers could still play a role in campaigns that target specific online communities where the influencers’ values align with community members. More research is recommended to expand to other audiences, as well as assessing other celebrities and influencers. Research can also address how consumers use social media to get food-related information, how trust could be affected by communication using different social media platforms, and content analyses of food-related communication by celebrities and influencers on social media outlets.