Two state universities have acquired major private sector patrons for food safety endeavors.
The University of Idaho has obtained a $2 million pledge from Agri Beef Co. and is continuing to raise money to build an $8 million meat science and innovation center on its campus in Moscow, ID.
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Totally on their own, E. coli bacteria have shown that they can evolve to a point where they are resistant to antibiotic drugs. Now some of the nation’s top scientists are showing how E. coli bacteria can resist ionizing radiation. They are taking advantage of the bacteria’s built-in ability to
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Earlier this year, Dan Schaefer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announced to the Wisconsin Livestock and Meat Council the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences’ (CALS) plans to build a new state-of-the-art meat science and muscle biology research facility.
According to Schaefer, the idea of constructing a modern meat
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The University of Wisconsin’s Dean of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences in Madison takes over Nov. 9th as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s deputy undersecretary for research, education and economics.
Molly Jahn, Wisconsin’s first woman dean of agriculture, will head the three units in the USDA that provide research
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