A two year project funded by the:

With the following four objectives:

Simulate contamination of produce fields that are representative of commercial fields in four produce-growing regions of the United States.
Evaluate convenience, improved generic, and risk-based sampling plans.
Validate simulations against data from industry partners and academic literature.
Validate simulations against field-trials of controlled contamination events.

More information on the project can be found in the funder’s database.

Here is a 1-minute update from 2019.