Food-Borne Illness

University of Minnesota to lead national effort in food bio-security

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 18th, 2004

The University of Minnesota has been named one of three U.S. Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence and has received a $15 million, 3-year grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to help develop ways to protect the nation's food supply from deliberate contamination or terrorist attack.

The university's Center of Excellence, known as the University Center for PostHarvest Food Protection and Defense (PHFPD) is a national consortium of academic, private-sector, and government partners including three other universities (Michigan State University, North Dakota State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison), experts at 12 more universities,...

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