The Partnership for Food Safety Education has announced the availability of a limited number of scholarships for full-time undergraduate and graduate students to attend its next national consumer food-safety education conference on December 4-5, 2014, in Arlington, VA.
The Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Agricultural Marketing Service, will provide $66 million to state departments of agriculture for projects that help support specialty crop growers.
Company philosophy is to use antibiotics only as needed and only when prescribed by a veterinarian, so Tyson has been working since 2011 to reduce the use of any antibiotics used in human medicine from the company's chicken operations.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new online tool to provide insight into FDA's compliance, inspection, and recall activities.
To help address important pest issues in Western agriculture, communities and natural areas, the Western Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Center is making $300,000 in grants available for development of IPM resources.
Romer Labs® has announced that both test kit lines, the AgraQuant® Gluten G12 ELISA test and the AgraStrip® Gluten G12 lateral flow test have obtained important approvals.
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have discovered that plants may package commensal bacteria — bacteria that help the plants extract nutrients and defend against pathogen invasion — inside of seeds, thus ensuring that sprouting plants are colonized from the beginning.
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