ARS Research Labs Studying Poultry

• Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center
• Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research
• National Animal Disease Center
• Poultry Production and Product Safety Research
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center: Quality & Safety Assessment Research
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center: Poultry Microbiological Safety & Processing Research
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center: Toxicology & Mycotoxin Research
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center: Egg and Poultry Production Safety
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center: Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research
• U.S. National Poultry Research Center: Endemic Poultry Viral Diseases Research
• Crop Science Research Laboratory
• Crop Science Research Laboratory: Genetics and Sustainable Agriculture Research
• Poultry Research
• Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory
• Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Animal Biosciences & Biotechnology Laboratory
• Eastern Regional Research Center: Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens Research
• Eastern Regional Research Center: Food Safety and Intervention Technologies Research

55 Research Projects Studying Poultry

• Alternatives to antibiotics strategies to control enteric diseases of poultry (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Animal Biosciences & Biotechnology Laboratory)
• Development of new technologies and methods to enhance the fertility, utilization, and long-term storage of poultry and swine germplasm (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Animal Biosciences & Biotechnology Laboratory)
• Developing a basis for control strategies against histomoniasis in poultry (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory)
• Detection of contaminants and sanitation inspection in poultry processing environments (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Laboratory)
• Biochar bedding amendment and anaerobic digestion mitigate foodborne pathogens, antimicrobial resistance and ammonia in poultry production (Food Animal Environmental Systems Research)
• An economic analysis of the value-added utilization of high-oleic peanuts as a poultry feed ingredient to produce premium eggs and poultry meat (Food Science and Market Quality and Handling Research)
• Dual biocontrol of salmonella in poultry: targeted killing plus vaccination (National Laboratory for Agriculture and The Environment: Agroecosystems Management Research)
• Validate causative mutations in poultry (Plant Genetics Research)
• Multi-hurdle approaches for controlling foodborne pathogens in poultry: salmonella vaccine potency testing (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Control of salmonella and campylobacter in poultry meat using electron beam (ebeam) treatment and perform sensory and consumer panel evaluations (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Enhancing microbiological safety and production efficiency in organic poultry farming: an interdisciplinary investigation of innovative strategies (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Leveraging neuroimmune pathways of host-microbe interaction in the development of novel e-beam antibiotic alternative strategies in poultry (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Microbiome transplantation as a novel approach to prevent climate change mediated susceptibility to foodborne pathogen carriage in poultry (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Multi-hurdle approaches for controlling foodborne pathogens in poultry (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Novel microbubble technology to reduce contamination of poultry products and fresh produce for small and medium veteran farmers (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Developing best management practices for poultry litter to improve agronomic value and reduce air, soil and water pollution (Poultry Production and Product Safety Research)
• Characterization of avian pathogenic e. coli field isolates and identification of potential vaccine targets in commercial poultry (Poultry Research)
• Hatchery and live production management strategies for improving poultry health (Poultry Research)
• Immunological and physiological characteristics of poultry vaccinated and/or challenged with avian pathogenic escherichia coli (apec) (Poultry Research)
• In-field grain processing for poultry diet (Poultry Research)
• Intervention strategies to mitigate avian escherichia coli infections and antimicrobial resistance in the poultry environment (Poultry Research)
• Characterization of avian pathogenic e. coli field isolates and identification of potential vaccine targets in commercial poultry (Poultry Research)
• Immunological and practical approaches to manipulate the ecological niches and reduce foodborne pathogens in poultry (Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Evaluation of an oregano-based feed additive to reduce salmonella colonization in poultry (Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• The control of food safety pathogens in preharvest poultry (Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center: Food and Feed Safety Research)
• Reduction of foodborne pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in poultry production environments (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Egg and Poultry Production Safety)
• Identify environmental and management drivers of foodborne pathogen ecology under pastured poultry rearing systems (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Egg and Poultry Production Safety)
• Application of probiotics as an alternative to antibiotics for the reduction of salmonella in poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Egg and Poultry Production Safety)
• Reduction of foodborne pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in poultry production environments (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Egg and Poultry Production Safety)
• Rear-in place poultry: diet formulation and feed (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Egg and Poultry Production Safety)
• Eliminating salmonella and campylobacter foodborne pathogens from poultry flocks at the farm (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Egg and Poultry Production Safety)
• Welfare, microbial food safety, and performance effects of raising broilers in pastured poultry rearing systems (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Egg and Poultry Production Safety)
• Genomic and epidemiological parameters to inform interventions strategies for enteric diseases of poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Endemic Poultry Viral Diseases Research)
• Systems biology approaches to develop medical countermeasures to detect, prevent, and control poultry production viral diseases (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Endemic Poultry Viral Diseases Research)
• Genomic and epidemiological parameters to inform interventions strategies for enteric diseases of poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Endemic Poultry Viral Diseases Research)
• Genomic and epidemiological parameters to inform interventions strategies for enteric diseases of poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Endemic Poultry Viral Diseases Research)
• An integrated basic and translational approach to mitigate key enteric diseases of poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Endemic Poultry Viral Diseases Research)
• Avian influenza virus host immunology and interventions for poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research)
• Evaluation of different vaccines for control of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry and ruminants (athens) (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research)
• Next generation sequencing as a diagnostic tool for poultry pathogens (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research)
• Characterization avian influenza virus immunology and intervention strategies in poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research)
• Strategies to control poultry associated foodborne pathogens at the retail level (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Poultry Microbiological Safety & Processing Research)
• Poultry postharvest food safety – molecular characterization, detection and intervention strategies for pathogen mitigation (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Poultry Microbiological Safety & Processing Research)
• Intervention strategies to control salmonella and campylobacter during poultry processing (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Poultry Microbiological Safety & Processing Research)
• Production and processing intervention strategies for poultry associated foodborne pathogens (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Poultry Microbiological Safety & Processing Research)
• Alternatives to antibiotics and genomics of antimicrobial resistance to control foodborne pathogens in poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Poultry Microbiological Safety & Processing Research)
• Addressing critical poultry industry challenge through creating value for chicken breast meat with myopathies (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Quality & Safety Assessment Research)
• Smart optical sensing of food hazards and elimination of non-nitrofurazone semicarbazide in poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Quality & Safety Assessment Research)
• Sustainable poultry processing research (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Quality & Safety Assessment Research)
• Poultry processing research and innovation (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Quality & Safety Assessment Research)
• Quality characteristics and sensor development for poultry and other agricultural commodities (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Quality & Safety Assessment Research)
• Development of sustainable and safe processing and waste management and practices for the us poultry industry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Quality & Safety Assessment Research)
• Resource-efficient poultry processing (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Quality & Safety Assessment Research)
• Strategies to reduce mycotoxin contamination in animal feed and its effect in poultry production systems (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Toxicology & Mycotoxin Research)
• Effect of mycotoxins and mitigation strategies in poultry (U.s. National Poultry Research Center: Toxicology & Mycotoxin Research)