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Research funded by the Foundation through its fiscal year 2019 contract with the Beef Checkoff has recently been completed.  The study is pending publication.  However, the abstract follows...

The Foundation Research Advisory Committee met this spring to discuss industry research priorities. These priorities address: pathogens on fresh and ready-to-eat meat and poultry products; other food safety issues; product quality; and nutritional sciences...

The Foundation’s searchable validation database summarizing the available scientific literature identifying antimicrobial and other interventions for fresh 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.

The Foundation released its 2019-2020 request for proposals in early July. The Foundation is seeking proposals in the research areas of food safety, product quality and nutrition sciences. Specific priorities include but are not limited to...

The Foundation, through its contract with the Beef Checkoff, sponsored the Consumer Food Safety Education Conference on March 6-8, 2019, in Orlando, FL. ...

The Foundation’s Board of Directors met in January 2019 to review and approve research funding recommendations made by the Foundation’s Research Advisory Committee. Three new projects were approved for funding. Two of the three projects focus on nutrition sciences, which was added to the research scope in 2018. ...

Research funded in part by the Foundation was recently published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. The abstract follows ...

Research funded by the Foundation through its contract with the Beef Checkoff was presented during TECHTalks at the International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, GA in February. TECHTalks are designed to provide exhibiting companies with an additional opportunity for dialogue and discussion with IPPE attendees about specific, individual topics. ...

In 2018, the Foundation undertook an aggressive agenda by conducting three requests for proposals (RFP).  In the spring, the Foundation issued a mini-RFP to fill the data gaps in response to the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s revised Appendices A and B, issued in June 2017.

The Foundation, through its contract with the Beef Checkoff, will sponsor the Consumer Food Safety Education Conference March 6-8, 2019, in Orlando, FL.  At this seventh in a series of food safety education conferences organized by the non-profit Partnership for Food Safety Education, attendees will explore influences on consumers, ways to affect behavior change and ways forward to better engage everyone in modeling proper food preparation and hand-hygiene practices.  The Foundation will share… read more