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Oregon’s Home Baking Bill: Residential kitchen exemption for baked goods and confectionary items

In 2016, the Oregon Legislature passed a law that allows people to produce certain baked goods and confectionary items in their home kitchens and sell them directly to consumers without having to obtain a food establishment ...

Lauren Gwin | Apr 2018 | OSU Extension Catalog

Oregon's Home Baking Bill: Excepción de cocina residencial para productos de panadería y confitería

En 2016, la legislatura de Oregón aprobó una ley que permite a la gente producir ciertos productos de panadería y confitería en sus cocinas domésticas y venderlos directamente a los consumidores sin tener que obtener una ...

Lauren Gwin | Apr 2018 | OSU Extension Catalog

Sanitizer Basics for the Food Industry

Cleaning and sanitation are critical to maintaining quality and safety in your food industry operation. Make cleaning and sanitizing programs part of your food safety culture. Here's how to make sure those doing your cleaning and...

Dave Stone, Jovana Kovacevic, Stephanie Brown | Oct 2020 | OSU Extension Catalog

Meat and Poultry Processing Regulations in Oregon: A Short Guide

Farmers and ranchers around Oregon raise and sell livestock and poultry for a variety of local and regional markets. Processing is a necessary but often complex link in the chain connecting farms to end consumers. Here are ...

Lauren Gwin | Dec 2016 | Article

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The Food Innovation Center offers one stop access to important services for food producers, processors, marketers, and entrepreneurs. Services include a commercial kitchen, marketing support, processing and packing technology, product development, export services and sensory and consumer analysis. It operates through a partnership between Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Agriculture.

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'Eat Oregon Seafood' campaign promotes industry impacted by pandemic

Oregon Sea Grant’s Extension fisheries specialists partnered with the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) and the Oregon seafood industry on initiative.

Amanda Gladics, Jamie Doyle, Angee Doerr | Dec 2020 | Impact story

High Speed Hand Washing Training for Teachers and Nurses

Teachers and nurses can train classrooms of students using the tips from this video from West Virginia University Extension Service.

Gwen Crum | Sep 2020 | Video

Pandemic leads to unprecedented burst of questions to Ask an Expert tool

Questions have ballooned to 6,625 in the first half of 2020, more than all of the questions answered in 2019.

Kym Pokorny | Jul 29, 2020 | News story

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Pandemic leads to unprecedented burst of questions to Ask an Expert tool

Questions have ballooned to 6,625 in the first half of 2020, more than all of the questions answered in 2019.

Kym Pokorny | Jul 29, 2020 | News story

Pioneering Extension dairy processing specialist appointed department head

Lisbeth Goddik devoted a large part of her Extension appointment at OSU to help build an artisan cheese industry in Oregon.

Chris Branam | Feb 28, 2020 | News story

Idle, uncleaned milk trucks don't compromise the quality of raw milk, OSU study shows

Raw milk quality isn’t compromised when tanker trucks sit empty and uncleaned for hours between loads, according to new research at Oregon State University.

Chris Branam | Mar 1, 2018 | News story

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