In the Spotlight
Global Opportunities in Agri-food Science & Technology
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Innovation and R&D - critical to the complex agri-food industry-enhance economic competitiveness and foster new food technologies, food safety, and value-added, healthful foods.
Read all about it in the November 2008 issue of Food Technology or view the PDF |
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Biofuels Engineering Process Technology
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Our own John (Nhuan) Nghiem has co-authored a very important book on biofuels.
Click here for more information. |
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Breaking News Siemens Partners With USDA ARS to Improve Conversion of Second-Generation Feedstocks to Chemicals and Biofuels
Atlanta, GA - Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. and the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreegment (CRADA) that will improve the processes used to convert second generation, non-food-based, biofuel feedstocks, including perennial grasses, animal wastes and agricultural residues such as corn stover, into liquid bio-fuel intermediates, such as bio-oil.
As part of the CRADA, Logical Innovation of Richmond, VA, will work with researchers at USDA/ARS's Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC) in Wyndmoor, PA, to improve on pyrolysis oil production via innovative control technologies.
Click here to read more about it!
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Beefing Up Barley Research Results Have Prompted Ethanol Producers to take Another Look at This Crop
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In the ethanol world barley may be corn’s poor cousin, but research efforts have made it an attractive feedstock option in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region.
Read more about the research in the October 2008 issue of Ethanol Producer Magazine . |
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To learn more click here !
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Food Safety Developments are in the Air
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An experimental treatment that relies on cold plasma, which is created by introducing electricity into a gas until free electrons are liberated, may one day keep fresh produce like apples and almonds safe from potentially harmful bacteria such as Salmonella, Listeria and E. coli . Photo courtesy of Paul Pierlott. |
An experimental treatment from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) could one day help protect some fresh produce from potentially dangerous microbes such as Salmonella , Listeria and Escherichia coli O157:H7.
The treatment relies on cold plasma, which is generated when some form of concentrated energy--in this case, electricity--is introduced into a gas until free electrons are torn from the gas's atoms.
At the ARS Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pa., microbiologist Brendan Niemira and engineer Joseph Sites --who are developing the process--exposed Golden Delicious apple samples to various microbial pathogens. Then they treated the samples with plasma.
Click here to read all about it!
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ERRC Participates in Bioenergy Awareness Day in Washington, DC, June 10-20, 2008 |
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Upcoming Events
- January 19 - Closed for Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- January 20 - Inauguration Day - The Inauguration can be viewed on the big screen in the Auditorium from 10 AM - 2 PM. Coffee and snacks will be available. Sponsored by EWRA
Inauguration Hoagie Sale at 11:30, also in the Auditorium
- January 21 - Seminar: "Catalysts for the 21st Century", presented by Dr. Bob Farrauto, BASF and Columbia Univ. Adjunct Professor, held in Room 2006 at 10:30 AM
- January 21 - Green Team Video: "Life After People" Part 2 to be held in Room 2006 from 12:00 to 12:45
- January 23 - Seminar: "Metal oxide catalyst support for the oxidative coupling of 4-methylpyridine over Pd.", presented by Dr. Luke Neal, Graduate of the University of Florida, held in Room 2006 at 10:30 AM
- January 28 - Green Team Meeting, Noon to 1 pm in Room 3008
10 Most Recent Publications
Additional Publications - We have 5600+ publications online that you can view and print.
The following publications are not yet online. To request a reprint, please email Patti.Durkin@ars.usda.gov with your name, address, and reprint number.
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AUTHOR |
8014 |
Factors affecting thermally induced furan formation |
X. Fan, L. Huang, and K.J.B. Sokorai |
8013 |
Identification and confirmation of chemical residues in food by chromatography-mass spectrometry and other techniques |
S.J. Lehotay, K. Mastovska, A. Amirav, A.B. Fialkov, T. Alon, P.A. Martos, A. de Kok, and A.R. Fernandez-Alba |
8012 |
Ultratrace analysis of nine macrolides, including tulathromycin A (Draxxin), in edible animal tissues with minicolumn liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry |
P.A. Martos, S.J. Lehotay, and B. Shurmer |
8011 |
A preliminary study on antimicrobial edible films from pectin and other food hydrocolloids by extrusion method |
L.S. Liu, T. Jin, C.-K. Liu, K. Hicks, A.K. Mohanty, R. Bhardwaj, and M. Misra |
8010 |
A review: controlled release systems for agricultural and food applications |
L.S. Liu, J. Kost, M.L. Fishman, and K.B. Hicks |
8009 |
A kinetic study of poorly water soluble drug released from pectin microcapsules using diffusion/dissolution model |
Z. Muhidinov, J. Bobokalonov, L.S. Liu, and R. Fassihi |
8008 |
Synbiotic matrices derived from plant oligosaccharides and polysaccharides |
A.T. Hotchkiss, Jr., L.S. Liu, J. Call, P. Cooke, J.B. Luchansky and R.A. Rastall |
8007 |
Innovation and R&D - critical to the complex agri-food industry - enhance economic competitiveness and foster new food technologies, food safety, and value-added, healthful foods |
C. Onwulata, L.F. Flora, and W. Kramer |
8006 |
Data analysis techniques |
M.H. Tunick |
8005 |
Modified pectin-based carrier for gene delivery: cellular barriers in gene delivery course |
T. Katav, L.S. Liu, T. Traitel, R. Goldbart, M. Wolfson, and J. Kost | |