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Collaborations The Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Laboratory has a long and productive history of collaborative research involving stakeholders.  Current collaborators and projects:  Spectral Sensing Technologies for Safety and Quality Assessment of Food, Food Contact Surfaces, and Controlled-Environment Food Production Systems  Detection of Contaminants and Sanitation Inspection in Poultry Processing Environments  Food Safety Innovations and Preventive Controls during Fresh and Fresh-Cut Produce Washing, Packing, and Retail Display  Assessing Romaine Lettuce “Forward Processing” for Potential Impacts on EHEC Growth, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, and Infectivity Development of an Infrared-Functionalized Microbalance Sensor for Cyclospora Cayetanensis Detection and Differentiation  Detection and Disinfection of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) on Food Contact Surfaces  Development of Nondestructive Sensing Technologies for In-Field Biological and Chemical Contaminant Screening of Agricultural Products  Spectral Sensing and Instrumentation for Automated Food Integrity Assessment  Monitoring and Managing Microbial Water Quality for Food Safety  Hyperspectral Imaging for Health and Food Safety in Cislunar Salad Crop Production  Antimicrobial Resistance in the Gut Microflora of Young Calves  Automated Portable Sensing Technologies for Screening Food Contaminants  Control Environment Crop Health and Safety Monitoring System Development Integration of Multimodal UAV Sensors for Preharvest Food Safety Monitoring Applications  Development of an Infrared-Functionalized Microbalance Sensor for Cyclospora Cayetanensis Detection and Differentiation  Factors Affect the Transfer of Bacterial Pathogens to Leafy Greens from Soils  Embedded AI Techniques for Compact Optical Sensing Systems for Food Safety Scientific Challenges and Cost-Effective Management of Risks Associated with Implementation of Produce Safety Regulations Machine Learning-Enabled Novel Pathogen Detection Platform for Nondestructive Supply Chain Surveillance  Monitoring and Modeling Microbial Quality of Irrigation Water  Development of Scanning-based Detection of Food Contamination and Mitigation for Biofilm Removal on Equipment Surfaces  Microbial and Physico-Chemical Technologies to Control Bacterial Pathogens during Hydroponic, Aquaponic, and Soil Production of Fresh Produce  Assessing Romaine Lettuce "Forward Processing" for Potential Impacts on EHEC Growth, Antimicrobial Susceptibility, and Infectivity Using Modeling to Develop Monitoring Strategy and Scheduling for Microbial Quality of Irrigation Water Sources Modeling Fate and Transport of Indicator and Pathogenic Organisms to Assess Microbial Water Quality of Irrigation Water Sources Understand the Chemistry in Food System to Improve Toxin Detection and Food Safety  Detection of Contamination on Meat Products and Equipment Surfaces in Meat Processing Plants


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