In an effort to assist reply the recent produce business’s most pressing meals security questions, the Heart for Produce Security (CPS) is funding 14 new analysis tasks, valued at greater than $3.9 million.
These 14 new tasks are geared toward answering business questions on leafy greens manufacturing in managed environments, evaluating and mitigating threat from Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella, and Cyclospora detection.
Researchers’ proposals had been vetted by business consultants on the CPS Technical Committee and different professional volunteers.
One of many fourteen tasks has already begun and the opposite 13 tasks will start in Nov. 2022 and January 2023. All will plan on being accomplished inside one to 2 years. Findings might be reported to the business by researchers at CPS’s annual Analysis Symposium, and by way of CPS by means of different information switch actions together with summaries posted to CPS’s web site, and month-to-month CPS emails conveying analysis updates.
2022 RFP Grant Recipients:
All tasks will start in January 2023 (*besides as famous)
- Ana Allende, Ph.D., CEBAS-CSIC
- Alejandro Castillo, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Analysis
*Started in April 2022
- Malak Esseili, Ph.D., College of Georgia
- Kristen Gibson, Ph.D., College of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Microbial risks during indoor leafy green production: Current knowledge and future research needs
*Will start in November 2022
- Asis Khan, Ph.D., USDA Agricultural Analysis Service
A viability assay for Cyclospora and its surrogates Eimeria
- Jenny Maloney, Ph.D., USDA Agricultural Analysis Service
- Channah Rock, Ph.D., College of Arizona
- Matthew Stasiewicz, Ph.D., College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Flexible risk process models to quantify residual risks and the impact of interventions
- Laura Strawn, Ph.D., Virginia Tech
A metagenomic approach to food safety risk mitigation in pears
- Pilar Truchado Gambao, Ph.D., CEBAS-CSIC
- Mohit Verma, Ph.D., Purdue College
Testbeds for microbial source tracking using microfluidic paper-based analytical devices
- Qixin Zhong, Ph.D., College of Tennessee
- Meijun Zhu, Ph.D., Washington State College
- Meijun Zhu, Ph.D., Washington State College
Interaction of resident microbiome and Listeria on pears during cold storage
CPS’s analysis program is made attainable by funds supplied by the Heart for Produce Security’s Marketing campaign Contributors, the Specialty Crop Block Grant packages in California Division of Meals and Agriculture, Washington State Division of Agriculture, Florida Division of Agriculture and Client Providers, and Texas Division of Agriculture.
About CPS: The Heart for Produce Security (CPS) is a 501(c)(3), U.S. tax-exempt, charitable group centered solely on offering the produce business and authorities with open entry to the actionable info wanted to repeatedly improve the protection of recent produce.
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