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ABC News
House panel probes honeybee disappearances
Christian Science Monitor, MA -
Mr. Roberts was testifying Thursday before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture, which had brought together scientists ...
Bay State skirts lost-bee crisis The Republican - MassLive.com
Honeybee Killer Still at Large Discover Magazine
Bee disappearances could get worse, House panel told Chicago Tribune
The Associated Press - Southeast Farm Press
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Columbus Dispatch
Roots to rubber
Columbus Dispatch, OH -
At Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, scientists are carefully breeding Taraxacum kok-saghyz to squeeze rubber from ...
Mount Gilead man headed to Ohio State Fair and Ohio 4-H halls of fame Mansfield News Journal
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Africa: Global Food Crisis Demands New Approach to Agriculture
AllAfrica.com, Washington -
Such an approach, he added, must promote sound market-based principles, increase agricultural productivity through the practical application of research and ...
Africa: USDA-ARS, Mars And IDM Launch Joint Project to Sequence ...
AllAfrica.com, Washington - Jun 26, 2008
The United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Mars, Incorporated, and IBM are combining their scientific resources ...
IBM and Mars to study cocoa genome VNUNet.com
IBM Teams With Mars To Sweeten Cocoa Research InformationWeek
USDA-ARS, Mars and IBM Research Intend to Sequence and Study the ... CNNMoney.com
Science Daily (press release) - Wired News
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Maize farmers expect profit bonanza
Business Report, South Africa - Jun 29, 2008
By Ethel Hazelhurst Johannesburg - The respite from high food and other agricultural prices, reported last week, is likely to prove brief, as grain prices ...
Agricultural research and development need a boost
Bangkok Post, Thailand - Jun 29, 2008
The Agriculture Ministry rather than private food companies remains the largest performer of agricultural research, with a research budget worth 1.617 ...
Harvest of plenty Bangkok Post
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Ethanol interest lags as corn prices rise
Indianapolis Star, United States - Jun 30, 2008
"There's actually an impetus for us to push harder toward alternatives to corn-based ethanol," said Sonny Ramaswamy, director of agricultural research ...
Inflation too mild to account for stagnant agriculture
Economic Times, India -
A study of agricultural growth in reform years (?Agricultural Growth in India since 1991?) by the Development Research Group of the RBI has thrown up some ...
USDA report: yield and acres down for US corn
WTHI, IN -
That's news coming from the US Department of Agriculture's Acreage report that just came out Monday, June 30 th . The report shows corn planting is down 7% ...

New York Times
Promise of Biofuel Clouded by Weather Risks
New York Times, United States -
?Agricultural markets are subject to wide variability and big price spikes, just like oil markets.? Three years ago, Americans discovered that the ...
Storm Exchange: Midwest Flood to Impact 12% of US GDP; 14% of ... Business Wire (press release)
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[BOOK] Science under scarcity: principles and practice for agricultural research evaluation and priority … -
JM Alston, GW Norton, PG Pardey - 1995 - fao.org
... in cooperation with the International Service for National Agricultural Research.".
Type, Bibliography. Collation, 585 p. Availability, NAL/USDA (United States ...

[BOOK] Agricultural research policy -
VW Ruttan - 1982 - fao.org
... Other subjects, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH - GOVERNMENT POLICY.
Language, En. ... Collation, 369 p. Availability, NAL/USDA (United States of America ...

[BOOK] Paying for Agricultural Productivity
JM Alston, PG Pardey, VH Smith - 1999 - Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Causal Relationships between Public Sector Agricultural Research Expenditures and Output
PG Pardey, B Craig - American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1989 - JSTOR
... In fact, from 1976 to 1983 the USDA's Inventory of Agricultural Research-the
only source available-reports total obligations of the SAES. ...

[BOOK] Soil Erosion Research Methods -
R Lal - 1994 - books.google.com
... Leader, Intermountain Research Station, USDA, Forest Service, Idaho GR Foster Director,
National Sedimentation Laboratory, Agricultural Research Ser- vice, US ...

[DOC] Western forest insects -
RL Furniss, VM Carolin - USDA For. Serv. Misc. Publ, 1977 - fs.fed.us
USDA. ... Technical reviews of chapters or parts of chapters were made by a number of
Forest Service and Agricultural Research Service entomologists, as well as ...

Seed Banks and Molecular Maps: Unlocking Genetic Potential from the Wild -
SD Tanksley, SR McCouch - Science, 1997 - sciencemag.org
... Fig. 2. Cryopreservation of seed stocks at USDA-Agricultural Research Service
(ARS) National Seed Storage Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado. ...

Economic Benefits from Research: An Example from Agriculture -
RE Evenson, PE Waggoner, VW Ruttan - Science, 1979 - sciencemag.org
... Precisely because the public role is large in agricultural research, the data are
available to analyze the economic re- turns from investment in research (Ta ...

… : a field scale model for Chemicals, Runoff, and Erosion from Agricultural Management Systems [USA]
WG Knisel - United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Conservation research …, 1980 - fao.org
... Availability, NAL/USDA (United States of America). Availability number, 8025878.
Serial Title, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Conservation research report ...

Evaluating Returns to Agricultural Research: A Review -
GW Norton, JS Davis - American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1981 - JSTOR
... This research was supported in part by funds from the North Central Region Agricultural
Experiment Stations and by Coopera- tive Research, SEA USDA. ...

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Fresh-cut produce washing practices can minimize food-borne illness risks

New information will benefit produce industry and consumers

 

WASHINGTON, DC -- Researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently examined the safety and quality of "wash techniques" used in the production of packaged produce. The study, published in the October 2007 issue of HortScience, simulated washing techniques to learn more about how industry practices affect quality and safety of pre-cut lettuce.

Yaguang Luo, PhD, Research Food Technologist at the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory, headed the study of produce wash techniques used in the commercial preparation of pre-cut fruits and vegetables. Luo explained that recent outbreaks of food-borne illnesses associated with the consumption of fresh-cut produce underscored the importance of ensuring food safety of these packaged convenience foods.

He noted that washing the produce is an important step commonly employed by the industry to maintain the quality and safety of fresh and fresh-cut produce. Prior to the study, however, little information existed about how wash operation and water re-use techniques affected the water quality, the efficacy of sanitizers on the reduction of microorganisms, or the quality and shelf life of packaged products. Luo explained: "The main objective of the research was to examine the dynamic interactions among wash operation, water quality, and sanitizer efficacy and product quality. We investigated the effect of produce washing techniques, including simulated water re-use, and the ratio between product weight and wash water volume on the water quality and effectiveness of sanitizers used to reduce microorganisms."

The researchers found that procedures in which water was re-used during the washing process led to rapid accumulation of organic matter in wash water and compromised the efficacy of sanitizers. According to Luo, "It is generally known that water re-use can cause water quality loss. The value of this research is that it reveals the complex effects of the foreign matter that is washed from produce on water quality and product quality, and it provides specific information on how wash operation variables (such as re-use of the same tank of water with increasing amount of cut product being washed) affect the water quality." The study also demonstrated the direct effect of wash water quality on product quality.

Luo concluded that results of the USDA study should define relationships among produce wash operations, water quality and product quality, giving produce packers new tools for enhancing food safety and quality.

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The complete study and abstract are available on the ASHS HortScience electronic journal web site: http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/6/1413/

Founded in 1903, the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) is the largest organization dedicated to advancing all facets of horticultural research, education and application. More information at ashs.org

 
 
 
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