Human Nutrition
A Randomized, Controlled, Crossover Trial to Assess the Effects of a Lean Pork-containing, High-protein Breakfast on Indices of Satiety and Metabolic Health In Men and Women with
June 22, 2017By Kevin Maki
Experimental studies in humans designed to test the impact of pork consumption on glucose homeostasis and other elements of the cardiometabolic risk factor profile are limited. Previous research on...
Evaluation of cross-protective immunity induced by porcine intestinal mesenchymal stromal cell-adapted PEDV
June 16, 2017By Mahesh Khatri
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) which was isolated in 2013 in the US is causing huge economic losses to Pork Industry. PEDV causes an acute enteric infection in pigs of all ages but infection...
Pork Quality
National Pork Retail Benchmarking Study
May 31, 2017By David Newman
The primary objective of this project was to benchmark fresh pork quality at the retail store level. A great deal of variation in pork quality exists in the retail marketplace, leaving consumers with...
Pork Quality
Prediction of Pork Quality using Raman Spectroscopy
May 30, 2017By Steven Lonergan
The objective of the project was to develop an approach to use Raman spectroscopy to predict sensory quality of fresh pork loins. Pork loins (n=200) were selected during fabrication on seven...
Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease
Improvement of Interferon Biotherapeutics for Foot-and-mouth Disease in Swine
May 26, 2017By Dr. James Zhu
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Novel feed processing methods of cold pelleting and fine ground corn segregation to maximize feed efficiency, nutrient utilization and economic return
May 22, 2017By Charles Stark
Swine producers continue to grind to extremely fine particle sizes, which inherently produces a significant portion of the diet that is fine powder. The fine particles (< 150 microns) create...
Swine Health - PRRS
Improving the performance of PRRSV oral fluid diagnostics
May 10, 2017By Jeffrey Zimmerman|Luis Gimenez-Lirola
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Prevalence and characterization of Salmonella from head meat and trim for ground at pork processing facilities
May 4, 2017By Roger B. Harvey
Recent research has reported that if superficial lymph nodes from cattle carcasses were included into ground beef, there was an increased risk of Salmonella contamination of ground beef. This...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Alternative antibiotic technologies for weaned pigs
May 3, 2017By Ross Beier
New technologies are needed to help livestock producers maintain health and wellbeing of their animals while minimizing risks of disseminating antimicrobial resistant bacteria to humans or animals....
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Do probiotics, an antibiotic alternative, mitigate or contribute to emergence and persistence of antimicrobial resistance in gut bacteria?
April 4, 2017By T.G. Nagaraja
The use of antimicrobials in feed and their positive benefits on growth performance during the nursery stage of swine production system is well established. In the past, producers have widely used...
