Useful Contacts
- UC Davis Food Safety Laboratory
- FoodSafe Program
- Center for Consumer Research
- Dairy Food Safety Laboratory
- Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center
- California Department of Health Services
- UC Veterinary Medicine Extension
- UC Animal Science Extension
- California Animal Health and Food Safety Services Laboratory System
- UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center
- USDA Agricultural Research Service
- Animal Food Safety Educational Materials
- International Association for Food Protection
CDFA's Food Safety efforts
Our efforts are based on partnerships with industry, universities, government agencies, and working groups. These relationships allow members involved to share their expertise, information, and experience so that all sides have a better appreciation of how to reduce contamination of food products.
CDFA also participates in and supports food safety research necessary to address on-farm intervention strategies that will affect the viability of California's agricultural industries in the future.
Featured California Food Safety Researcher: Joan Jeffrey, Ph.D.
Dr. Joan Jeffrey joined the UC Davis Departments of Population,
Health and
Reproduction and Veterinary Medicine Extension in 1996. Dr.
Jeffrey came to California via Texas A&M University where
she was an Assistant Professor and Poultry Extension
Veterinarian. Her first professional experience in California,
was as a Resident in Avian Diagnostics with the California
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory System at Fresno from
1990-1992. Prior to that, Dr. Jeffrey received her Veterinary
and Masters degrees from Ohio State University.
Research interests:
- Infectious disease
- Bacterial food safety pathogens
- Cellulitis in broiler chickens (a bacterial condition that
- causes downgrading of carcasses at slaughter)
- Survival of food safety pathogens in used broiler litter
- Role of Campylobacter in commercial poultry, gamebirds,
- squab and small-scale chicken production
Extension efforts:
- Providing educational opportunities for commercial poultry producers
- Participating in California's poultry Quality Assurance
- Programs Learning about small-scale bird production challenges
Contact us for more information:
California Department of Food and Agriculture
Animal Health and Food Safety Services, Animal Health Branch
1220 N Street, Room A-107
Sacramento, California 95814
Telephone: (916) 654-1447
Fax: (916) 653-2215
or send an email to: ahbfeedback@cdfa.ca.gov