Established in 1988, the Food Safety Consortium is developing technology to rapidly identify contaminants, methods to evaluate potential health risks, risk-monitoring techniques to detect potential hazards in the food chain, and the most effective intervention points to control microbiological or chemical hazards. The Food Safety Consortium consists of researchers from the University of Arkansas, Iowa State University and Kansas State University.
The Consortium's charge is to conduct extensive investigation into all areas of poultry, beef and pork meat production, from the farm to the consumer's table. Each of the university members of the Consortium is primarily performing research associated with the specific animal species for which that university is uniquely qualified: University
of Arkansas: poultry, Iowa State University: pork, and Kansas State University:
beef. Iowa State University is a Collaborating Center for the World Health
Organization in the area of food safety and research.
Last updated:
June 4, 2004
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