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Publication Offers Tips on Aquaponics Food Safety

Posted on | September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

On-Farm Food Safety: Aquaponics plant photo

Mānoa Project Manager James Hollyer, Specialist Clyde Tamaru, Extension Specialist Robert Howerton, Extension Leader Darren Okimoto, Academic Support Luisa Castro, Aquaculture Program Coordinator Tetsuzan Benny Ron, the Hawaiʻi Institute for Marine Biology’s B. K. ’Kai’ Fox and ADAP Coordinator Vanessa Troegner published On-Farm Food Safety: Aquaponics. This publications presents good agricultural practices tested by experienced farmers to prevent foodborne illness.

Aquaponics is a food production system that uses nutrient-rich water from fish culture to irrigate and fertilize plants. After the plants have absorbed the nutrients, the water is recirculated to the fish rearing tanks. This combination of aquaculture and hydroponics recycles both water and nutrients, resulting in an efficient use of resources. However, when food plants are grown in the presence of fish culture effluent, food safety considerations become very important.

Key areas of consideration include
• human sanitation
• harvesting produce safely
• managing warm-blooded animal feces
• water sources for fish and produce
• zoonoses prevention
• disposing of the system’s waste water

On-Farm Food Safety: Aquaponics is available for download. To see more free publications go to Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources website.

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One Response to “Publication Offers Tips on Aquaponics Food Safety”

  1. Tetsuzan Benny Ron
    November 1st, 2011 @ 1:47 pm

    These are ALL the names on the publication
    “On-Farm Food Safety: Aquaponics”:
    Jim Hollyer, Clyde Tamaru, Allen Riggs, RuthEllen Klinger-Bowen, Robert Howerton, Darren Okimoto,
    Luisa Castro, Tetsuzan ‘Benny’ Ron, B. K. ‘Kai’ Fox, Vanessa Troegner, and Glenn Martinez.
    Dr. Allen Riggs is the State of Hawaii Department of Agriculture (DOA) Veterinarian, at the time this publication came up RuthEllen Klinger-Bowen was working for the DOA and Mr. Glenn Martinez is the owner of Olomana Gardens and an aquapoincs evangelist who teaches aquaponics in the Hawaii and the Pacific islands and all the way to Samoa and the Philippines.
    You can find these fine people’s profile on http://www.aquaculturehub.org were we educate, learn, share and engage in aquaculture with more then 1500 active members and many more visitors.