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Food Safety

Food-safety fortress
KSU’s Biosecurity Research Institute focuses on foodsafety using cutting edge research and education
BY BRYAN SALVAGE
bsalvage@sosland.com

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here’s a major food-safety force tak ing shape in Manhat tan, Kan.; a unique biocontainment research and training facility named the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI). Located at Pat Roberts Hall on the Kansas State Univ. campus, this facility serves as a safe and secure location for researchers studying high-consequence pathogens (See BRI: A work in progress, Page 96). E. coli O157:H7 and its shigatoxinproducing cousins are currently a major focus of public health programs, research programs and beef industry efforts, and this will be a primary

regulatory and research focus for the next several years, says Randall Phebus, Ph.D., Professor of Food Safety & Defense at KSU. He is also a scientific principal investigator (PI) at the BRI. BRI researchers have been active in understanding the risks this group of pathogens poses to the beef industry. “We have been developing detection methodologies targeting this broader group of STEC [Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli], and my colleague Dr. T.G. Nagaraja’s research group has successfully developed a multi-plex polymerase chain reaction [PCR] assay that de-

tects the seven primary STEC simultaneously from environmental and bovine fecal samples.” Research is further validating this assay for beef products and surveillance studies have been conducted to gauge the prevalence of these different STEC in production environments. “I am working with Dr. Harshavardhan Thippareddi at the Univ. of Nebraska to model the growth and
Above (from left): Dr. Richard Oberst (Co-PI), Casey Paddock and Rachael Sullivan (research assistants) work in the BSL-3 containment laboratory. (Photo
courtesy of the BRI)

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Meat&Poultry - March 2011

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Commentary - Defense mechanisms
Hormel earnings up 34 percent in first quarter
Cargill introduces Fressure patties
Maple Leaf earnings hit by input costs
Sanderson Farms touts record FY2010
Grant allows XL Foods to double capacity
Townsends poultry ops sold after bankruptcy
JBS reports positive results of food-safety technology
Taco Bell launches new beef image TV ads
Catfish inspection gets political
Sustainability strides
E xperience counts
THE TOP 125 PROCESSORS - Winner’s circle
THE TOP 125 PROCESSORS - Alphabetical listing by company name
THE TOP 125 PROCESSORS - by rank
Small Business Matters - Duty calls
Food Ingredient Solutions - Delectable pairings
Processing Innovations - Everything but the squeal
Sanitation - Cleaning passion
Food Safety - Reassigning resources
Food Safety - Food-safety fortress
Packaging Solutions - Packaging under pressure
New Product Rollouts - Unveiling ideas
New Products
Labor - Questioning benefi ts
Names in the News
New Product Showcase
Classified Advertising
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