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The Meat Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2024-2025 scholarship awards. Twenty-one high-performing undergraduate and graduate students received a total of $110,000 to pursue degrees in animal, meat and food sciences at their respective universities.

The Food Industry Association and the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education, the foundation for the North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute), released their 15th-annual in-depth study of meat and poultry through shoppers’ eyes. The Power of Meat 2020 explores consumption trends, sales growth and consumer preferences and found demand for meat is accelerating with $50.5 billion in sales for 2019.

Research funded by the Beef Checkoff and administered by the Foundation was recently published in the Journal of Food Protection.  The abstract follows...

The Foundation’s Research Advisory Committee (RAC) sets research priorities and directs research activities, subject to approval by the Foundation Board of Directors.  The RAC is comprised of scientific leaders in industry, academia, and government who volunteer their time to serve in this critical capacity...

In 2019, the Foundation undertook comprehensive research agenda by conducting two requests for proposals (RFP).  In January, the Foundation Board of Directors approved three research projects to address these research priorities...

A new study by NutriRECS, released last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, recommended adults continue their current consumption of unprocessed and processed red meat...

The Foundation’s searchable validation database summarizing the available scientific literature identifying antimicrobial and other interventions for processed meat and poultry has been updated. Small and very small meat and poultry establishments can use this database, along with the processed meat database, in the design of intervention strategies and as scientific support in the validation of their Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) systems.

Submissions to the Foundation’s 2019-2020 request for proposals are currently under evaluation by the Foundation’s Research Advisory Committee, however, the Foundation has issued a supplemental, expedited request for proposals on the nutrition priorities identified below. The Foundation sought proposals in the research areas of food safety, product quality and nutrition sciences, but there remains a critical need for additional proposals in nutrition sciences.

The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC), which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS), published foodborne illness source ...

The Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education received nearly $800,000 in FY20 to conduct research on behalf of the Beef Checkoff. Research will address post-harvest beef safety and processed beef nutrition.