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Food Safety (animal and plant products)
(National Program 108) in MD
Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Laboratory
- Scientific Challenges and Cost-Effective Management of Risks Associated with Implementation of Produce Safety Regulations
- Monitoring and Modeling Microbial Quality of Irrigation Water
- Detection and Characterization of Zoonotic and Emerging Parasites Affecting Food Safety and Public Health
- Embedded AI Techniques for Compact Optical Sensing Systems for Food Safety
- Evaluation of Genetic and Management Factors to Reduce Foodborne Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in Dairy Cattle
- Intervention Strategies to Mitigate the Food Safety Risks Associated with the Fresh Produce Supply Chain
- Detection of Contaminants and Sanitation Inspection in Poultry Processing Environments
- Detection and Disinfection of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) on Food Contact Surfaces
- Detection of Contamination on Meat Products and Equipment Surfaces in Meat Processing Plants
- Advancement of Sensing Technologies for Food Safety and Security Applications
- Improving Pre-harvest Produce Safety through Reduction of Pathogen Levels in Agricultural Environments and Development and Validation of Farm-Scale Microbial Quality Model for Irrigation Water Sources
- Prevention of Pathogen Contamination in the Lettuce Production Continuum-Beltsville
- Assessing Romaine Lettuce “Forward Processing” for Potential Impacts on EHEC Growth, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, and Infectivity
- Integration of Multimodal UAV Sensors for Preharvest Food Safety Monitoring Applications
- Factors Affect the Transfer of Bacterial Pathogens to Leafy Greens from Soils
- Machine Learning-Enabled Novel Pathogen Detection Platform for Nondestructive Supply Chain Surveillance
- Spectral Sensing and Instrumentation for Automated Food Integrity Assessment
- Development of an Infrared-Functionalized Microbalance Sensor for Cyclospora Cayetanensis Detection and Differentiation
- Modeling Fate and Transport of Indicator and Pathogenic Organisms to Assess Microbial Water Quality of Irrigation Water Sources
- Monitoring and Managing Microbial Water Quality for Food Safety
- Spectral Sensing Technologies for Safety and Quality Assessment of Food, Food Contact Surfaces, and Controlled-Environment Food Production Systems
- Understand the Chemistry in Food System to Improve Toxin Detection and Food Safety
- Control Environment Crop Health and Safety Monitoring System Development
- Multiplex Detection of Viable Pathogen - Empowering Conventional QA/QC Toolkits with Nano-Dyes and Machine Learning
- Machine Intelligence Driven Design of Anti-microbial Coatings for Fresh Produce
- Automated non-invasive Detection of Surface Contamination and Optimizing Surface Biofilm Removal Conditions in Large-Scale Food Processing Equipment
- Factors Affect the Transfer of Bacterial Pathogens to Leafy Greens from Soils
- Multi-modal Imaging for Monitoring Plant Health and Crop Growth Remotely in Spacecraft
- Precision Solutions for Pathogen Carriage on Dairy Farms Using Machine Learning
- Development of AI-Machine Vision Based Automated Robotics Technologies for Microbial Food Safety and Agricultural Applications
- Factors Affecting the Transfer of Bacterial and Viral Pathogens to Produce to Protect Food Safety and Security
Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory
- Foodborne Parasites and their Impact on Food Safety
- AFECCT: Assessing Filtration Efficacy for Cyclospora Control
- Completing a National Survey of Pork Safety
- A Viability Assay for Cyclospora and its Surrogates Eimeria
- An Immunomagnetic Separation Method for Concentrating and Increasing the Recovery Efficiency of Cyclospora
Animal Production and Protection
Nutrition, Food Safety/Quality