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Mission: To provide environmentally sound, economically viable systems, treatments, and processes that control quarantine pests, ensure product quality, food safety, and increase product value.
Areas of Research:
- Develop and commercialize postharvest treatments of systems that ensure product quality and marketability, while controlling quarantine pests to meet regulatory standards for opening or maintaining export markets.
- Improve or develop processes and products that enhance quality and add value to export commodities.
Conduct research on handling, storage, packaging, and transportation systems that enhance commodity quality and facilitate market access.
- Provide reliable methods, processes and strategies to identify, count and control microorganisms that effect the quality and safety of foods; to reduce the risk of microbial contamination in agricultural products; and to use tools to identify critical control points and assessment factors for hazard analysis.
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Last Modified: 04/30/2008
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