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Novel Approaches to Food Safety in Agriculture

Principle Investigator/Project Leader:
Lynne Mclandsborough
Department of Food Science
Co-Principal Investigator/Co-Project Leader:
Ronald Labbe
Department of Food Science
,
Amanda Kinchla
Dept of Food Science
Sponsoring Unit(s): Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station
Department of Project: Food Science Dept.
Project Description

The safety of the food supply is a continuing issue for agriculture, with an estimated 81 million instances of food borne illnesses in the USA annually, with an estimated cost of $152 billion dollars per year to the US economy. The Center for Disease Control and prevention estimates that 46% of these illnesses were due to produce - thus food safety is very much an agricultural issue. This multi-researcher project will focus on four critical aspects of food safety: understanding the scope of food safety problems, characterizing the scientific basis of pathogenic organisms' survival, development of methodology for detection, and translating knowledge through food safety extension research and activates. Together these activities will contribute to the long term goal of reducing the overall risk of foodborne illness.

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