USDA Grants $2.4 Million to UNL for Swine-Focused Research to Improve Food Safety, Animal Health
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA’s NIFA) has awarded $2.48 million in grants to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) for research that aims to improve food safety and animal health in swine production.
The funds will be dispersed across four projects. The first study, which is a collaboration with the United States Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) and the USDA Agricultural Research Center (ARS) National Animal Disease Center, will examine the ecology of antibiotic resistance gene pools within the swine production system and its effect on the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to inform the development of management and nutritional strategies that reduce antimicrobial use.