| Item | Standard | Information | Other |
| Signage | A sign shall be posted in each location, stall or stand which indicates procedures for touching, tasting and other food safety considerations given the commodity and location. | Signs should be large and posted in locations where customers can see and understand that Farmers Markets have minimum standards for food safety. | Customers should be casually observed to ensure there are no gross violations of the visitor standards. |
| Clean Clothing | Clean clothing that has the appearance of cleanliness shall be worn by Farmers Market Personnel. | Farmers should refrain where possible from wearing clothes normally reserved for farming. | Difficult to enforce and inspectors should only make recommendations or suggestions with this standard. |
| Restrooms | Restrooms should be provided on an estimated 1 per 25 customers. These restrooms should be easy to walk to, accessible and fully stocked with paper, water, soap and checked frequently for cleanliness. | This is an important standard and care should be taken to ensure customers are aware of locations and necessity to use these and not use the field for such purposes. | Inspectors shall enforce this standard. |
| Control of Children | Customer children should not be allowed to wander into the food display area or stand. | Children need to be controlled for a variety of reasons including food safety. | Inspectors should make recommendations and suggestions. |
| Hand-washing | Hand-washing should be emphasized at every opportunity with wash locations and hand sanitizers. | Signage should suggest frequent hand-washing before and during picking. | |
| Farm Containers | The farm should provide containers to place selected fruit that are clean and serviceable. | These containers shall be cleaned between use or disposable containers provided such as an environmentally correct bag. | Customer brought containers may not be used for picking. |
| Fruit or fruit containers shall not be placed on the ground and no one shall select fruit on the ground
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Fruit shall not be placed on the ground, picked up from the ground | Any fruit touching the ground is considered not food safe. | |
| Only touching what is purchased. | Touched fruit is purchased fruit. If touched fruit is not desired it should be discarded on the ground. | ||
| Removal of Trash | Customers should be provided containers where to discard trash. | Discarding trash on the ground is unacceptable. | |
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Lot Numbering |
Purchased product shall be numbered with the date of purchase. | Bags and containers shall be numbered with the date of purchase. | This may be accomplished with a pen, stamp or sticker. |