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University Park, PA
- Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research: Our mission is to support environmentally and economically sustainable farming in the northeastern U.S. by improving agroecosystem management. Major research efforts include: 1. Developing fundamental information for establishing, maintaining, and managing diverse forage and grazing lands, (More)
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Wyndmoor, PA
- Eastern Regional Research Center:
- Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens: The Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research Unit maintains a commitment to high quality basic and applied research to (1) address the needs of regulatory agencies, the food industry, the scientific community, and the consumer to ensure a safe food supply with an extended (More)
- Microbial and Chemical Food Safety: The mission of the Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research Unit is to conduct high-quality innovative research for 1) detecting harmful chemical and biochemical contaminants, 2) developing microbial predictive models and methods, and 3) developing novel intervention and packaging technologies (More)
- Dairy and Functional Foods Research: The Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit solves critical problems in utilization of dairy, fruit and vegetable by-products by developing technologies for production of high-quality food ingredients, value-added functional foods, bioactive peptides and biobased materials. Research also (More)
- Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research: The Sustainable Biofuels and CoProducts Research Unit develops methods for biorefining and crop production that support new markets and increased profitability for U.S. agriculture. We develop chemical, catalytic, thermal, enzymatic, and fermentative technologies to convert low value agricultural (More)
- Food Safety and Intervention Technologies Research: Research is conducted to protect the health of the public through the development and validation of novel process interventions to improve the safety and shelf-life of foods. • Determine the incidence and prevalence of microbial contaminants in food • Develop and validate non-thermal and (More)
National Programs in Pennsylvania
- Food Safety (animal and plant products) (108)
- Water Availability and Watershed Management (211)
- Soil and Air (212)
- Grass, Forage, and Rangeland Agroecosystems (215)
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Research (216)
- Product Quality and New Uses (306)
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- Managing Water Resources to Foster the Sustainable Intensification of Agroecosystems in the Northeastern U.S. ( Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research )
- Comprehensive Environmental Framework to Facilitate Resilient and Sustainable Intensification of Crop-Livestock Systems ( Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research )
- Developing Climate-Smart Forage and Animal Management Strategies and Precision Technologies for Integrated Crop-Pasture-Livestock Systems in the Northeast ( Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research )
- Incidence of Bacterial Pathogens in Regulated Foods and Applied Processing Technologies for Their Destruction ( Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research )
- Validation and Commercialization of Innovative Processing Technologies ( Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research )
- Detection, Quantification and Characterization Technologies for Foodborne Pathogens ( Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research )
- Molecular Analysis of Foodborne Pathogen Responses to Stressors ( Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research )
- Mitigation of Foodborne Pathogens in Water and Fresh Produce via Application of Biochar ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
- Development and Validation of Predictive Models and Pathogen Modeling Programs; and Data Acquisition for International Microbial Databases ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
- Technology Development, Evaluation and Validation for the Detection and Characterization of Chemical Contaminants in Foods ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
- Innovative Detection and Intervention Technologies Mitigating Shellfish-borne Pathogens ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
- Integration and Validation of Alternative and Multiple Intervention Technologies to Enhance Microbial Safety, Quality, and Shelf-life of Food ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
- Advanced Methods for Predictive Modeling of Bacterial Growth and Survival in Foods ( Microbial and Chemical Food Safety Research )
- Upcycling Dairy Processing By-Products ( Dairy and Functional Foods Research )
- New Bioactive Products from Dairy Fermentation ( Dairy and Functional Foods Research )
- The Effects of Dietary Components and Food Processing on the Gut Ecosystem ( Dairy and Functional Foods Research )
- Production, Utilization, and Importance of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Sustainable Agriculture ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )
- Repurposing Herbaceous Agricultural Feedstocks for Biochemical Conversion to Bio-Based Products ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )
- Marketable Products from Thermochemical Biorefineries ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )
- Biotechnology for Production of Bio-based Plastics and Surfactants from Agricultural Byproducts ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )
- Sustainable Bioproducts from Agricultural and Food Processing Waste ( Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research )