- Investigators
- Sharma, Manan; Millner, Patricia; Luo, Yaguang
- Institutions
- USDA - Agricultural Research Service
- Start date
- 2014
- End date
- 2018
- Objective
The purposes of this project are: 1) To determine the duration of survival of fecal indicator bacteria (E. coli) and other enteric bacteria in manure-amended soils in the Northeast U.S. (Vermont), and 2) identify routes of Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes contamination on cantaloupes during growing and post-harvest transfer operations.
- Funding Source
- Agricultural Research Service
- ARS (NP108)
- Project source
- View this project
- Project number
- 8042-32420-006-11I
- Accession number
- 427476
- Categories
- Escherichia coli
- Listeria
- Salmonella
- Commodities
- Produce
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