{"id":1555,"date":"2020-07-02T11:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2020-07-02T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:54:10","slug":"wsu-researchers-join-low-moisture-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/2020\/07\/02\/wsu-researchers-join-low-moisture-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU researchers join $9.8M project to study low-moisture food safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"CAHNRS News<\/a><\/strong><\/span>|July 02, 2020<\/p>\n

Low-moisture foods, like cereals and flour, dried fruit and nuts, have been recalled repeatedly in the last few years, posing health risks to consumers and economic threats to businesses.<\/p>\n

Bradley Marks, chair of the MSU Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, leads a team of economists, engineers, microbiologists, consumer educators and risk modelers in the five-year, $9.8 million grant from USDA\u2019s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. NIFA has designated the project as a Center of Excellence, meaning it has high merit value and meets criteria for broad impact.<\/p>\n

Low-moisture foods are used as ingredients in a variety of products, so if one supplier faces a recall, numerous items could be affected. One recall or outbreak could put a small operation out of business.<\/p>\n

E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria can\u2019t be completely eliminated from dried fruits, nuts, flour and cereals. However…\u00a0[continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: CAHNRS News<\/p>\n

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\"\"CAHNRS News<\/a><\/strong>|July 02, 2020<\/p>\n

Low-moisture foods, like cereals and flour, dried fruit and nuts, have been recalled repeatedly in the last few years, posing health risks to consumers and economic threats to businesses.<\/p>\n

Bradley Marks, chair of the MSU Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, leads a team of economists, engineers, microbiologists, consumer educators and risk modelers in the five-year, $9.8 million grant from USDA\u2019s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. NIFA has designated the project as a Center of Excellence, meaning it has high merit value and meets … » More …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[415,425,573,434],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}