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2/1/2025

$14 Million Investment from USDA NIFA in Food Safety Research and Outreach

Dr. Sean Campbell

Late in November, the USDA NIFA announced they would be contributing $14 million in projects related to “food safety research, outreach and workforce training” as part of a larger effort to “strengthen the safety of our nation’s food supply.”

Within that funding, $4.5 million will be contributed under the Food Safety & Defense Program with the mandate of reducing food contamination risks by developing methods and procedures to identify, enumerate and/or mitigate hazards in foods. Of the 12 projects funded under the Food Safety & Defense Program, Emory University in Georgia will receive around $800,000 to develop improved laboratory tests for detecting if viruses in produce like lettuce and raspberries are infectious.

The additional $9.6 million in funding will be under the NIFA Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP), which is tasked with providing food safety training and education to small to mid-size farms and processors, veterans, beginning and underserved farmers, and small-scale merchant wholesalers. Within the 23 funded FSOP projects, the one I’m most excited about is the University of Florida-led initiative to develop a multistate collaborative effort to support the Food Safety Modernization Act in the Southeast produce industry with compliance training, education and outreach.

Click to read the full press release, which includes links to the projects mentioned.  

 

 

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