Tech grant studies feedyard pathogen prevention methods
Texas Farm Bureau / Ag Headlines / Oct. 8, 2007Now using nearly $600,000 from the USDA, an International Center for Food Industry Excellence (ICFIE) team will train feedlot personnel to implement intervention strategies for E. coli 0157 and Salmonella in feedyards.
"This grant will take our research out of the lab and get it to our end users," said Mindy Brashears, director of the ICFIE. "Thanks to the USDA, this information is not limited to a journal article or a conference demonstration; the benefits can be passed to feed yards and, ultimately, consumers."
ICFIE research has shown that by introducing relatively simple safeguards at critical junctures, feedyards can contain pathogen spread as they transport cattle for harvest. Using approximately $598,000 from the USDA, they will develop and conduct a Pre-harvest Food Safety Demonstration Project at Texas Tech to relay this information to the cattle industry.
Texas Tech will collaborate with the National Cattleman's Beef Association in the project. Team members include Brashears, Markus Miller, Chance Brooks, Todd Brashears, Mark Lyte, all from Texas Tech, and Guy Loneragan from West Texas A&M University.
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