New center established to help safeguard food supply.(Washington)

Food Institute Report, The, July, 2004

The Homeland Security Center for Post-Harvest Food Protection and Defense at the University of Minnesota has been launched. The center joins two others: the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense at Texas A&M University, centering on animal diseases, and the Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events at the University of Southern California, where an economic analysis of terrorism will be conducted. The fourth center, focusing on behavioral and social aspects of terrorism, has not yet been unveiled.

The University of Minnesota's center will concentrate on protecting the food supply from intentional contamination, noted The Star Tribune (July 7). Research will range from devising ways to detect dangerous...

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