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Pork Checkoff Research

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Environment - Manure Storage / Application
Recovery of phosphorus and fine particles as fertilizer from swine manure by electrocoagulation
Pork production is one of the most important agricultural activities in the United States, and 75% of the swine operations are geographically located in the Upper-Midwest. The environmental effects...
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluating alternative chemical mitigants to prevent PEDV recontamination of swine feed and ingredients
Research has confirmed that chemical treatments, such as medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) and commercial formaldehyde, can be effective to reduce the risk of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)...
Animal Well-being
A review of heavy weight market pigs: status of knowledge and future needs assessment
Human Nutrition
Postprandial muscle protein synthetic responses after high quality pork consumption in lean, overweight, and obese adults
Obesity is associated with numerous chronic diseases. Many obese individuals, however, do not display overt disease. This is due to obese...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a Novel Self-Propagating PRSSV-VSV G Hybrid Replicon as a Vector for Inducing Broad PRRSV Protection
Throughout successive cycles of Pork Check-off funding, our laboratories (Pattnaik’s and Osorio’s labs) have consistently produced new and fundamental information on: (i) the...
Infectivity of swine manure from pits on sow farms at varying lengths of time post infection with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)
This project was designed to test manure from manure lagoons on sow farms across the midwest for the presence of viable PEDV in an effort to understand the risk of transmitting this virus...
Public Health - Worker Health & Safety
Assessment of Injuries in Pork Production Facilities
Working with pigs has its own inherent risks. The occurrence of injury in people working in agriculture is often higher than most other...
Swine Health - General Disease
Assessing the effects of medium chain fatty acids and fat sources on PEDv by qRT-PCR and bioassay
Research has confirmed that chemical treatments, such as medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) and commercial formaldehyde, can be effective to reduce the risk of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)...
Other
Pork variety meat offal global safety and quality literature search and industry survey
The ability of the pork industry to enhance profitability is best found through the utilization of low value products that are not commonly...
Other
Pork offal bone literature review and industry survey
The ability of the pork industry to enhance profitability is best found through the utilization of low value products that are not commonly accepted for consumption in the United States, ie offal...
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