Pork Checkoff Research
Research is at the heart of the National Pork Board’s mission and is funded by your Pork Checkoff dollars. Research is administered in all areas of pork production, processing, and human nutrition to develop a higher quality and more profitable product in the competitive meat protein market.
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Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Phenotypic evaluation of the impact of antibiotic use protocols on antimicrobial resistance patterns in PRRS virus infected swine in a naïve environment
Pork Quality
Characterizing the amount, variability and cellular mechanisms of intramuscular fat deposition throughout the loin using barrows and gilts from two genotypes
Environment - Air
Correctly Classifying the Source of Fecal Waste in Surface Waters
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Interventions to Control Salmonella I 4,[5],12:I:- in Pork
Animal Well-being
Validation of a Mobile Electrocution System for Humane Mass Depopulation of Swine
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Managing gilt “litter of origin” to improve sow lifetime productivity
Swine Health - General Disease
Prospective investigation of Streptococcus suis isolates from diseased pigs and healthy pen-matched controls in outbreaks of Streptococcus-associated neurologic disease using metagenomics, serotyping and sequencing.
Public Health - MRSA
Bacteriophages for the control of Staphylococcus aureus on environmental surfaces
Environment - Air
