{"id":4122,"date":"2014-08-22T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/newsroom\/?post_type=fdoc-news-item&amp;p=271"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T19:59:35","slug":"in-the-news-ultraviolet-light-could-help-citrus-packers-with-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fdoc-news-item\/in-the-news-ultraviolet-light-could-help-citrus-packers-with-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Ultraviolet light could help citrus packers with food safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an article for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/article\/20140822\/NEWS\/140829805\/1001\/BUSINESS?Title=Citrus-Packers-Hear-Benefits-of-Ultraviolet-Light\">The Ledger<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0writer\u00a0Kevin Bouffard highlights the food safety research of\u00a0University of Florida scientist Kevin Folta. The article states that \u201cFolta\u2019s research shows ultraviolet light can effectively kill harmful microorganisms on the peel during processing in the packinghouse.\u201d Though the cost of installing a UV treatment system in a packing house is high now, prices on the bulbs are expected to decrease in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article for\u00a0The Ledger,\u00a0writer\u00a0Kevin Bouffard highlights the food safety research of\u00a0University of Florida scientist Kevin Folta. The article states that \u201cFolta\u2019s research shows ultraviolet light can effectively kill harmful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":272,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[100],"fdoc_citrus_type":[107,108],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-4122","fdoc-news-item","type-fdoc-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fdoc_news_item_category-industry","fdoc_citrus_type-orange","fdoc_citrus_type-orange-juice"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item\/4122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fdoc-news-item"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc_news_item_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_news_item_category?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_citrus_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_citrus_type?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_health_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_health_category?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}