Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
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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Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Bioinformatics Based Genome Comparison of Six Salmonella spp. to Provide a Foundation for the Development of Reliable Molecular Epidemiological Methods.
Salmonella research is the top priority for the pig industry especially related to pre-harvest reduction of pathogens with potential public health significance. The pre-harvest food safety research...
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
Fecal-contaminant indicators in soils and water of a watershed producing swine and other livestock
This study reports on the presence of the bacterium E. coli in agricultural watersheds, which indicates fecal pollution. We examined its survival in soil and its transport in tile drainage and...
Swine Health - General Disease
Development of an Antiviral and Vaccine Approach to Control Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) causes a highly contagious disease of cloven-hoofed animals including swine, cattle, sheep and goats. The economic impact of an FMD outbreak can be devastating as...
Environment - Air
Evaluation of the ammonia emissions from swine production units in Iowa
Ammonia concentrations in the air adjacent to and downwind of swine production units are of concern to producers. Most of the existing measurements have been conducted with single point monitors or...
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
Best Management Practice Research in a Watershed with Swine Production Facilities
This project has supported research in the South Fork of the Iowa River watershed, where swine and other livestock are being produced, and water resource concerns have been raised. These activities...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Evaluation of Toxo TaqMan Assay for use in Detection of Swine Toxoplasmosis
Environment - Water Usage / Conservation
Optimizing the Placement of Practices that Improve Water Quality Within a Watershed
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Identification of diagnostic proteins of Toxoplasma gondii by targeted proteomic analysis
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
