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Center of Excellence and Seafood Safety Lab Dedicated at Delaware State
University
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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
June 2, 1999
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DOVER, Del., June 2—Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today dedicated a new
Center of Excellence and a U.S. Department of Agriculture seafood safety lab
at Delaware State University, an 1890 historically African-American land
grant university.
Centers of Excellence are partnerships between 1890s schools and USDA to
carry out complementary research on agricultural problems of regional and
national interest and enhance research facilities at these schools. Delaware
State University has an extensive program in aquaculture, and the new center
will carry the title of Microbial Safety of Aquaculture Products Center of
Excellence.
The new lab, which is part of USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS),
will focus on microbiological food safety issues of aquaculture products, in
particular developing faster, more efficient tests to detect disease-causing
viruses and bacteria in clams, mussels and oysters.
"USDA, Delaware State University and the public will benefit from this new
partnership," said Glickman. "Delaware State University and USDA will be
able to pool scientific expertise and resources in aquaculture research,
students will gain the chance to have hands-on experience in a
state-of-the-art laboratory, and the public will have safer food."
The opening of this Center of Excellence brings USDA's total to 15, seven of
which are partnerships between ARS and 1890s colleges and universities. In
addition to Delaware State University, ARS has Center of Excellence
partnerships with Tennessee State University, the University of Arkansas at
Pine Bluff, the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Langston University in
Oklahoma, Florida A&M University, and Alcorn State University in
Mississippi.
Seafood safety is an important area of research for USDA. As coastal
populations continue to grow, there is increasing concern over the quality
of coastal waters and the safety of molluscan shellfish inhabiting those
waters.
"Improved methods will make it easier to track disease outbreaks as well as
the environmental factors and pollutants that can lead to disease problems,"
said ARS Administrator Floyd Horn.
The laboratory is a field location of the Microbial Food Safety Research
Unit at the ARS Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pa., and is
headed by ARS microbiologist Gary P. Richards.
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