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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

UGA helping efforts to move poultry litter better (Georgia Faces/University of Georgia/ 11/01)

Florida Food Safety 101: How to produce safer veggies (University of Florida/IFAS/ 10/11)

A Tiny Pinch from a 'Z-Ring' Helps Bacteria Cells Divide (Johns Hopkins University/ 10/11)

LEOPOLD CENTER CONSUMER SURVEY LOOKS AT LINKS BETWEEN LOCAL FOODS AND CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTH, FOOD SAFETY (University of Iowa / 9/28)

USDA Awards More Than $14 Million in Food Safety Grants (CSREES/USDA/ 9/25)

Carbon nanotubes could be new pathogen weapon (Food Production Daily/ 8/31)

Poultry innovations give breathing room in summer (Georgia Faces/UGA/ 8/30)

Plants provide potent antimicrobial extracts (Food Production Daily/ 8/21)

Imported foods cause for concern (University of Georgia/Georgia Faces/ 8/09)

Rutgers: GM/GMO/Biotech crop containment strategy (EurekAlert!/ 6/06)

Mutant parasites, unable to infect hosts, highlight virulence genes (University of Wisconsin-Madison/ 5/30)

Mad Cow: News, Information and Resources (UC Davis/ 5/30)

System improving life, profits in chicken houses (Georgia Faces/UGA/ 5/24)

New UGA program focuses on food supply safety (UGA/Georgia Faces/ 5/17)

Simple Equations Track Listeria Trails (EurekAlert!/Brown University/ 5/15)

Artificial 'snot' improves sensor smell say researchers (Food Production Daily/ 5/04)

New Method Developed on University Campus Quickly Detects Tainted Pet Food (Newswise/ 4/30)

How Done Is That Burger? (UC Davis/ 4/24)

UGA adds program in organic agriculture (UGA/Georgia Faces/ 4/19)

Cheaper, potentially better disease treatments expected from faster approach to developing therapeutic antibodies (EurekAlert!/The University of Texas/ 4/18)

Tomato processor supports new food science laboratory (UC Davis/ 4/17)

Food safety group takes 'pop' message to masses (International Food Safety Network/KSU/ 4/17)

Researchers from the UGR use a bacterium to obtain biopreservatives from food (EurekAlert!/University of Granada/ 4/17)

What's in the water? Estrogenic activity documented in fish caught in Pittsburgh's rivers. (EurekAlert!/University of Pittsburgh/ 4/17)

"Bird Flu” Genome Study Shows New Strains, Western Spread (Newswise/ University of Maryland/ 4/16)

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method (Newswise/Texas A&M University/ 4/12)

Bacteria Control How Infectious They Become, Study Finds (Newswise/Ohio State University/ 4/12)

Fresh Express Funds Nine Innovative Research Projects Totaling $2 million to study E. coli O157:H7 in lettuce and leafy greens (Chiquita.com / 4/12)

$4.65 Million to Fund New Produce Safety Research Center at UC Davis (UC Davis/ 4/11)

Researchers study decontamination of chemical, biological warfare agents (Virginia Tech/ 4/11)

Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Clear and Present Danger (University of Utah/ 4/10)

Major Funding Commitment for Food Safety Research to be Announced (UC Davis/ 4/09)

UC Davis Food Safety Institute's Director to Retire (UC Davis/ 4/06)

Communications/Newsletter Spring 2007 (Food Research Institute/University ofWisconsin–Madison /pdf/ 4/05)

UC Davis Wins New National Center for Avian Flu Research (UCDavis/ 4/03)

York mathematician probes geometric route to combat viruses (EurekAlert!/ University of York/ 4/02)

"Treatment and Disposal of Food Products Contaminated by Biological Threat Agents" (Food Research Institute/ University of Wisconsin - Madison/ Workshop Registration)

Manure as Fuel: Poultry Litter-Fueled Furnace Will Reduce Energy Costs, Protect Watershed (Newswise/ 3/29)

Is it safe to drink the sewage? Presentation examines wastewater treatment concerns (Virginia Tech/ 3/29)

Veterinary College Offers Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases Course (University of Tennessee / 3/15)

Food for thought ( Kansas StateUniversity / Food Safety Network/ 3/14)

Food science recruits on the rise (Food Production Daily / 3/14)

Discovery of chemical profiles for infectious diarrhoea (U.K.,University of Bristol /2/26)

At Issue: Veterinary Care in Rural Tennessee (The University of Tennessee / 2/23)

Top researcher at U of A to fight prion-related diseases (University of Alberta / 2/21)

UC Davis Brewing Expert to Speak at New York Academy of Sciences (UC Davis / 2/21)

Commonwealth Research Initiative supports virologists hiring (VirginiaTech/1/18)

News conference announcing The Center for Agriculture and Food Security and Preparedness (University of Tennessee / 10/11)

Regulators, scientists form food safety networks (FoodProductionDaily.com / 10/2)

Center Coordinates Food Safety and Security Efforts (NewsWise.com / 8/15)

Center Coordinates K-State's Safety And Security Efforts (NewsWise.com / 6/30)

Penn State Extension to aid Pennsylvania schools with food safety (Pennsylvania State University / 5/8)

University of Washington to Establish Dept. of Global Health (NewsWise.com / 1/18)

One Last Question: Who Did the Work? (New York Times / 1/17)

UW SCIENTISTS TEAM UP TO BATTLE FOOD-BORNE ILLNESSES (University of Wisconsin / 12/13)

Minimizing Risk of Terrorism Drives Food Researchers (NewsWise.com / 11/7)