Recommendation Six
Explore providing food safety mentoring, training, financial assistance, and ongoing support for small scale food processors that may assist them in achieving and maintaining food safety certifications. This may also enhance their market competitiveness, reach, and safeguard public health.
Many processors appear to face challenges in navigating and understanding the complexities of food safety certification processes and the associated costs with these certifications. To address this possible gap and support small scale processors in achieving and maintaining food safety certifications, creating an assistance program may be beneficial to small scale food processors.