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- IPMP Dynamic Prediction
- Dr. Pina Fratamico elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology
- IPMP - Global Fit
- Raising the temperature for more on-farm biodiesel production
- 2016 Energy & Fuels Joint Award for Publication Excellence
- What On-Farm Pyrolysis Means at ARS

History and Accomplishmentsheadline bar Photo of 4 Directors *ERRC's Past Directors:*Percy A. Wells (1939-1969)Ivan A. Wolff (1969-1980)Herbert L. Rothbart (1980-1984)John P. Cherry (1984-2007) The ERRC is home to the Nation’s leading scientists and engineers in agriculture solving problems facing the U.S. today and for tomorrow with fundamental, applied, and developmental research on agricultural commodities including milk, meat, poultry, hides, leather, wool, fats, oils, rendered protein, grains, fruits, vegetables, energy crops, and juices. New knowledge and technology that will ensure an abundance of high quality agricultural commodities and products at reasonable prices to meet the increasing needs and to provide a continued improvement in the standard of living of all Americans are obtained through the following research objectives:  Development of rapid methods to detect human pathogens and harmful chemicals in foods
Development of novel methods to characterize human pathogens in foods
Development of microbial predictive modeling for food safety risk assessment and management
Development of effective and innovative intervention technologies to reduce or eliminate human pathogens in foods
Sustainable production of biofuels and co-products from grains and biomass
Sustainable agricultural practices
Development of new crop-derived food ingredients and nutraceuticals with health-promoting ability
Development of new food and dairy products with improved functionality and health benefits
Development of valuable biobased products from agricultural byproducts for biomedical, industrial, and commercial applications
Utilize by-products, particularly potential pollutants
Open new and expand existing domestic and foreign markets ERRC has six Research Units that conduct work to benefit producers of agricultural commodities, handlers and processors of food and nonfood products, federal action and regulatory agencies, and the consumer. They are Sustainable Biofuels and Coproducts; Dairy and Functional Foods; Biobased and Other Animal Coproducts; Food Safety and Intervention Technologies; Residue Chemistry and Predictive Microbiology; and Molecular Characterization of Foodborne Pathogens. Two work sites, University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Delaware State University with microbial food safety programs report to ERRC.  ***Selected High Impact Accomplishments*** Molecular model of collagen microfibril
New uses of surplus agricultural proteins as biopolymer fillers for leather
Non-sulfide unhairing processes
Nondestructive evaluation methods for leather
Developed technology for using poultry blood as a biobased  flocculant
Rhamnolipid biosurfactant production by non-pathogenic organism in an energy-saving process
Novel oleochemicals and tailor-made functional fluids from  renewable microbial biosurfactant
Biopolished Shrinkproof Wool
Union dye wool-cotton blends
Renewable flocculants from animal processing byproducts
Low-cost industrial fermentation feedstocks from animal processing byproducts
Instant potato flake process (instant potato products)*****
Lactose reduction (lact-aid, lactose-reduced, dairy products)
Lowfat-reduced mozzarella cheese (school lunch pizza)
Healthy dairy whey-based products
Environmentally-friendly and sustainable milk and food protein  fractionation and processing
Epoxidized ester plasticizers (fats, oils, feedstocks)
Glutaraldehyde tanning agent (launderable leather)
Pyrolysis of agricultural residues and waste for bioenergy
Salmonella-free poultry meat (food irradiation technologies)
Escherichia-free ground beef (food irradiation technologies)
Irradiation of beef, poultry, leafy greens, seeds for sprouting, and seafood for elimination of foodborne pathogens.
Pathogen Modeling Program/simulated process (microbial risk  assessment)
Amaizing Oil (corn fiber phytosterols for nutraceuticals that reduce serum cholesterol)
Next generation sequencing, proteomic analyses, and molecular characterization of foodborne pathogens (E. coli, Campylobacter, Listeria)
Utilization of soil fungi in conventional and organic agriculture
Enzymatic corn wet milling (environmentally-safe corn processing)
Enzymatic dewatering process to reduce energy used during fuel ethanol production
Direct (in situ) esterification process for producing biodiesel directly from feedstocks
First publicly available process and cost prediction models for fuel ethanol and biodiesel
Winter "Energy" Barley Fuel Ethanol Initiative for Mid Atlantic States
Pectin composites in biomedical devices, controlled drug delivery particles and bioplastics
QuEChERS approach for chemical residue analysis of foods
Vacuum-Steam-Vacuum and Flash Pasteurization®, and SLIC® technologies for inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes
High pressure processing of oysters for inactivation of viruses
Methodologies for rapid detection and typing of pathogenic bacteria and viruses in food

***** Resulted in ERRC’s designation as a National Historic Chemical ­Landmark in 2007.


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