UPDATES IN FOOD SAFETY FOR AQUAPONICS

Updates in food safety for aquaponics include interest from NASA in the microecology of aquaponics, as it covers a lot of the same ground as regenerative life support, similar food safety issues, and similar multidisciplinary nature. This presentation will include this and other annual updates in aquaponics food safety including a brief overview of food safety in AP (foodborne zoonotic pathogens associated with fish); a review of human pathogen finding(s) in aquaponics in 2015-2016 as permitted by the sites at which they occurred; and a review of commercial-scale AP operations successfully certified for food safety in 2015-2016.