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  Dear Collaborators,

We are pleased to announce the secured Collaborators Forum and Discussion Forum which will serve as a clearing house for GAPs related materials, ideas and discussion among the National GAPs Program Collaborators.

Materials posted and access to the Collaborators and Discussion Forum respectively can only be retrieved by collaborators using the log in information provided from the GAPsNET web coordinator. To ensure security we kindly ask you to not share any of the log in information and to use the materials posted or discussed as instructed.

First to be shared is a Frequently Asked Questions draft that we would like for you to comment on, edit, and provide more information to for it to be posted on the GAPsNET within short. The GAPs FAQ section was requested at the National GAPs Collaborators meeting in Florida this spring.

We hope you will enjoy the secured Collaborators and Discussion Forums and we are looking forward to see you provide materials to post!

Betsy and Bob
 
     
     
  Presentations from the Collaborators meeting in Florida  
  Agenda  
     
  Jack Guzewich - Produce Safety Update  
   
  Charles Gerba - Occurrence of Enteric Pathogens in Irrigation Water and the use of Risk Assesment in Setting Standards  
   
  Jorge Fonseca - Managing Irrigation Water in the Southwest Desert: Effect on Safety and Quality of Lettuce  
   
  Don Stoeckel - Use of Fecal-Indicator Bacteria to Assess Human Health Risks in Recreational Waters: A Review  
     
  Don Stoeckel - The Scoop on Poop: State of the Science in Microbial Source Tracking  
     
     
  Articles recommended by Collaborators  
  Risk Assessment of Virus in Drinking Water.
Charles N. Haas, Joan B. Rose, Charles Gerba and Stig Regli. 1993
 
   
  Development of a risk assessment approach for evaluating wastewater reuse standards for agriculture.
H. Shuval, Y. Lampert and B. Fattal. 1997
 
   
  Food Virology: Past, Present, and Future
Charles P. Gerba
 
   
  Application of Microbial Risk Assessment to the Development of Standards for Enteric Pathogens in Water Used to Irrigate Fresh Produce
Scott W. Stine, Inhong Song, Christopher Y. Choi, and Charles P. Gerba. 2005.
 
   
  Role of Irrigation Water in Crop Contamination by Viruses
Charles P. Gerba and Christopher Y. Choi
 
   
     
  Articles recommended by Don Stoeckel  
  Effects of animal feeding operations on water resources and the environment  
   
  Ground water resources  
   
  Irrigation water data report ofr00513  
   
  Modeling fecal concentration in SW used for irrigation  
   
  Predictive models for bacteria at beaches  
   
  References related to irrigation water quality