Joy Waite-Cusic

Associate Professor of Food Safety Systems
Statewide Specialist for Master Food Preserver Program
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Commercial Food Processing
Food Safety and Storage
Home Food Preservation

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Add-on Exercise for Produce Safety Alliance Module 6 v1.2– Post-harvest Handling and Sanitation

The intent of this add-on exercise is for PSA trainees to think through various harvest and post-harvest scenarios and consider implications related to produce safety in the context of real production environments. Following the “Examples of When Corrective Actions Should Be Considered” slide (Slide 45, v1.2), the exercise slide deck should be inserted. Each group of PSA ...

Jovana Kovacevic, Joy Waite-Cusic | Nov 2019 | Presentation

I had a jam apocalypse, what happened?

Q: I made uncooked freezer jam from blackberries in my yard. I put the prepared jam in jars, placed lids but not too tight with 1/2 headspace. After letting them sit on the counter for 24 hrs ( for the pectin to set) the jam was seeping out of the lids and when I unscrewed the lid the jam almost popped out like an oozing volcano. No odor and I foolishly tasted...

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Should I worry about the cyanide in lima beans?

Q: I've purchased yellow "butter beans" immature in the pods from a local farm stand. They are very good. But I just learned that lima beans have (or convert into) cyanide and so mature beans require long cooking to remove this "protective mechanism" that beans of this sort have evolved. My question is whether there are issues in cooking (4-5 minutes) "fresh" butter beans just like regular green beans or if there are risks or precautions?

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Is my flooded garden area safe?

Q: Is it safe to plant a vegetable garden after the area was covered by polluted flood waters for three days? Is it safe to eat existing vegetables (kale, garlic, etc) that survived? Our well tests positive for coliform bacteria and E. coli... two weeks later there is still floodwater remaining in our pasture. (This refers to the flooding of the Willamette river in Corvallis on April 10th 2019.) Should I wait a week, a month or a year to plant???

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On-Farm Readiness Reviews (OFRRs)

Oregon OFRRs

Jovana Kovacevic, Sara Runkel, Joy Waite-Cusic | May 2018 | Article

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