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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
Use of molecular assays to assess Toxoplasma gondii burden in commercial meat samples
Preventing pork associated foodborne diseases is important to pork producers. Infection with the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii (Tg), is a known risk factor associated with pork consumption. Thus assays...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Cloning of an 18kd oocyst-specific protein from Toxoplasma gondii for serological detection of human infection
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Evaluation of Toxo TaqMan Assay for use in Detection of Swine Toxoplasmosis
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Development of a sensitive molecular assay to detect Toxoplasma gondii DNA in biological samples
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Development of Methods for Surveillance of Retail Meat for Toxoplasma gondii
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Prevalence and Associated Risks in Areas Highly Endemic for Toxoplasma gondii in Swine
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