Empowering Stakeholders Through Impactful Engagement Via Fundamental and Applied Cucumber Pickling Science and Technologies

The phenomenal growth of the pickling industry in the USA and abroad merits documenting the technologies and practices that have led to such success as well as the novel technologies that will ensure continued developments to expand production of safe and consumer preferred pickles and related products. To this end, it is necessary to capture existing knowledge within the pickling industry to enable the specialization of the workforce, assure the manufacture of high quality and safe finished products, and facilitate the transfer of emerging science-based knowledge and technologies to the private sector. The documentation of the currently available experience among processors represents a critical advancement in achieving such goal. Hence, we aim to develop documentaries to capture the wealth of knowledge existing within the experienced workforce and science-based facts to augment understanding of the current alignment of the ARS research efforts with industry needs, enhance processors and manufacturers understanding of traditional and new practices and advocate for science-based and safe pickle production.