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New COVID-19 Rapid Response Program Area for Agricultural and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)

April 26, 2020

NIFA recently added a program area to its main Agricultural and Food Research Initiative RFA: Rapid Response to Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Impacts Across Food and Agricultural Systems. Deadline to submit applications is June 4. NIFA will expedite application evaluation & awards review to ensure rapid project start-up. For more information and to apply, view the RFA.

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UArizona Research Labs Produce Hand Sanitizer for Area Health Care Workers

April 20, 2020

Researchers in the School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences scaled down their work on bacterial infectious diseases to focus on the community's immediate need amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Invited Speaker - Norman Barnett

March 30, 2020

Norman Barnett, Lead Food Safety Trainer for the Arizona Department of Agriculture, gives an overview of of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule (PSR) for the Food Safety Consortium on March 24, 2020.

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FSC Newsletter Winter 2019

Dec. 20, 2019

Learn more about what the Food Safety Consortium has been working on in 2019.

2019 Food Safety Conference

Oct. 17, 2019

To promote networking and to provide educational opportunities for it’s members, the FSC hosted a Food Safety Conference in October at the Lodge on the Desert in Tucson, AZ. The conference included a wide array of speakers and attracted over 70 attendees. Following the conference guests enjoyed a poster session with a student poster competition sponsored by the Victor P. Smith Endowment in Food Safety Education.

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Safer Food Cats UA summer program had high school students studying food safety

June 15, 2019

Sampling meat for bacteria is probably not how a typical teenager would like to spend part of their summer.

But for 13 Arizona high school students in the SaferFoodCats summer program, this was exactly what they had in mind.

The University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences hosted high school students from across Arizona this month for a 12-day summer camp where they were introduced to career pathways in food safety and worked in a food safety lab. This was the inaugural year for the SaferFoodCats program.

Arizona Daily Star