Aurora Saulo (TPSS) writes a column called “Global Interests” in Food Quality and Safety Magazinethat focuses on food safety and quality issues of worldwide concern. Her most recent column spotlights the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP), which ensures that imported foods are held to the same level of public health protection as foods produced in the U.S. 

USDA is accepting applicants to the OneUSDA Internship opportunity for Summer 2019. USDA will hire Pathways Interns in every state in veterinary science, biological sciences (e.g., natural resources management forestry, wildlife biology, fish biology, ecology, botany, rangeland management, recreation), engineering, agribusiness, contracting, and procurement, and industry.

The first study to implicate ambrosia beetles in Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD) has been published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) at the University of Hawai‘i.

Feeling yellow? You may want to check out the Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Field Screening Pop-In Field Day. The college has been screening new varieties of tomatoes for possible resistance to the Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus, and a field day of resistant varieties will be held on Saturday, November 24, at the Waimanalo Research Station to go over field screenings that have been conducted in 2018 in the certified organic and GoFarm field plots. 

The Cooperative Extension forestry team is teaming up with the island Invasive Species Committees, Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry & Wildlife, Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, and Hawai‘i Ecotourism Association to offer a series of free workshops for eco-tour operators on how to avoid spreading the pathogen that causes Rapid ‘Ōhi‘a Death and other invasive species.