UC Delivers

UCCE Advisor in a field of strawberries

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UC ANR training improves food safety practices among Alameda County seniors

December 17, 2019
By Mary L Blackburn
Seniors with diminished learning and retention capacity, physical impairments, on multiple medicines, and with weakened immune systems are less able to fight foodborne pathogens. Adults over 60 years are more likely to have complications, be hospitalized, and die because of foodborne infections.
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Entomology Advisor David Haviland discusses mating disruption at an educational tour stop sponsored by the University of California
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IPM Advisors demonstrate mating disruption for key almond pest

June 28, 2019
By Jhalendra P Rijal, David R Haviland
Navel orangeworm is the single most important pest of more than 1.3 million acres of almonds in California. It feeds exclusively on almond kernels, rendering them unmarketable. Larvae are also associated with Aspergillus sp. fungi which can produce aflatoxin contamination of kernels at harvest.
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