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Displaying projects 1 - 25 of 19798

  1. Reassessing postharvest water management for pathogen infiltration/internalization

    • Investigators
      Maria I. Gil, Ph.D.; Pilar Truchado, Ph.D.; Juan Antonio Tudela, Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2026
    • End date
      2027

  2. Can clean get cleaner? Evaluation of cleaning and sanitation process improvements for harvest equipment of leafy greens

    • Investigators
      Channah Rock, Ph.D.; Michelle Danyluk, Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2026
    • End date
      2027

  3. Evaluation of grower practices to mitigate risks of BSAAO use in leafy greens

    • Investigators
      Channah Rock, Ph.D.; Kerry Cooper, Ph.D.; Erika Austhof, Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2026
    • End date
      2027

  4. Developing methods to assess risk to crops exposed to animal facility fugitive dust

    • Investigators
      Erin DiCaprio, Ph.D.; Brooke Latack, Ph.D.; Cuong Huu Nguyen Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2026
    • End date
      2027

  5. Automated compost monitoring with low-cost RFID, drones, and machine learning for improved control and pathogen safety

    • Investigators
      Chetan Badgujar, Ph.D.; Sai Swaminathan, Ph.D.; Shawn Hawkins, Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2026
    • End date
      2027

  6. Quantitative microbial risk assessments need to consider quality parameters to accurately predict produce food safety risks

  7. Agent-based models can predict appropriate risk-based set-back distances for flooded fields

  8. Salmonella risk is enhanced by onion condition or defect

  9. Solutions to brush sanitation tailored to the producer’s appetite for capital investment and labor intensity

    • Investigators
      Abby Snyder, Ph.D.; V.M. Balasubramaniam, Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2025
    • End date
      2026

  10. Two validated first-level screening assays for infectious hepatitis A virus by detection of an intact capsid on frozen berries

    • Investigators
      Jose Santos Garcia Alvarado, Ph.D.; Norma L. Heredia, Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2025
    • End date
      2025

  11. Methods for determining groundwater under the influence of surface water, and BMPs for mitigating distribution system contamination

    • Investigators
      Channah Rock, Ph.D.; Faith Critzer, Ph.D.; Michelle Danyluk, Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2025
    • End date
      2026

  12. Validation of novel DNA isolation procedures from limited numbers of Cyclospora oocysts

    • Investigators
      Scott Lenaghan, Ph.D.; Aaron Baumann Ph.D.; Benjamin Rosenthal Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2025
    • End date
      2025

  13. An immunomagnetic separation method for concentrating and increasing the recovery efficiency of Cyclospora

    • Investigators
      Asis Khan, Ph.D.; Mark C. Jenkins, Ph.D.; Joan Lunney, Ph.D.; Benjamin M. Rosenthal, S.D.; Jitender P. Dubey, MV. Sc., Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2025
    • End date
      2025

  14. Development of a screening assay for hepatitis A virus which correlates to infectivity

    • Investigators
      Lynette Johnston, Ph.D.; Lee-Ann Jaykus, Ph.D., Emerita; Benjamin Chapman, Ph.D
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2025
    • End date
      2025

  15. Color and material optimization of brushes for improved light-based sanitation

    • Investigators
      Govindaraj Dev Kumar, Ph.D.; Cameron Bardsley, Ph.D.; David Shapiro-Ilan, Ph.D.; Claire Murphy Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2025
    • End date
      2026

  16. Hydrogel affinity particles to enable high throughput screening of soft fruits for intact HAV virions

  17. Genomic and phenotypic assessment of E. coli O157:H7 REPEXH02 strains

    • Investigators
      Teresa Bergholz, Ph.D.; Shannon D. Manning, Ph.D.; Jiyoon Yi, Ph.D.; Michelle Q. Carter, Ph.D.
    • Funding Source
      Center for Produce Safety
    • Start date
      2025
    • End date
      2026

  18. Understanding PFAS bioaccumulation in the Osage Nation food-web in support of sustainable food production and sovereignty

  19. Evaluation of the Food Standards Pilot in Wales: Summary of Findings

  20. School Food Standards Compliance Pilot: Discovery and Feasibility Research

  21. United Kingdom Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey (UKCPVS)

  22. Fungicide performance in wheat, barley and oilseed rape (2025–28)

  23. Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo

  24. Columbia University

  25. IgE Sialylation as a Biomarker for Food Allergy