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ARS Home National Programs Nutrition, Food Safety/Quality





- James Lindsay, Co- Lead
- Kim Cook, Co-Lead
- Combating AMR
- Monitoring and Mitigating the Spread of Plant Disease
- Protecting Human and Animal Health
- Safeguarding Food Supply
- Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
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Strategic Visionheadline barMission Statement
To provide through research, the means to ensure that the food supply is safe for consumers; and that food and feed meet foreign and domestic regulatory requirements. Food safety research seeks ways to assess, control or eliminate potentially harmful food contaminants, including both introduced and naturally occurring pathogenic bacteria, viruses and parasites, toxins and non-biological-based chemical contaminants, mycotoxins and plant toxins. Food safety is a global issue; thus, the research program involves both national and international collaborations through formal and informal partnerships. Accomplishments and outcomes are utilized in national and international strategies delivering research results and advances to regulatory agencies, commodity organizations, industry and consumers.

Program Vision
To enhance and protect public health and agriculture through the development of technologies, strategies, and data that safeguard food from pathogens, toxins, and chemical contaminants during production, processing, and preparation, thus increasing the safety of the food supply.


Program Component
*Food Borne Contaminants*
Problem Statement 1. Population Systems
Problem Statement 2. Systems Biology
Problem Statement 3. Microbial Contaminants:  Technologies for Detection and Characterization
Problem Statement 4.  Chemical and Biological Contaminants:  Detection and Characterization Methodology, Toxicology, and Toxinology
Problem Statement 5.  Intervention and Control Strategies
Problem Statement 6.  Predictive Microbiology/Modeling; Data Acquisition and Storage; Genomics Database
Problem Statement 7:  Antimicrobial ResistanceProjects in this Program. Click on a colored state to view research projects within the state.


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