Fall fair season is fast approaching, and more than ever, promoters are proactively and publicly saying, this is what we do to reduce the risk of food safety problems, this is what we do to reduce the risk of problems with petting zoos.

Pennsylvania’s Centre County Grange Encampment and Fair published an extensive list of risks and steps to reduce risks yesterday.

Today it was Kentucky, promoting the safety steps undertaken by state and local health-types to reduce food safety risks.

It’s a refreshing change from the defensive-it’s-not-me stance adopted by many other groups specializing in Paleolithic-era communications, such as the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, whose president today published an op-ed in a small Canadian paper (so small it doesn’t have a web presence, but it was in FSnet and is on our web site) claiming that fresh produce is the "the safest fresh food group" based on a Public Health Agency of Canada study that apparently the industry, but no one else, has already seen.

More about this later.