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Preventing and detecting food contamination. (News).(Purdue University's Center for Food...

In an effort to protect the nation's food supply from biological and chemical contaminants, Purdue University and U.S. Department of Agriculture engineers and food scientists have teamed up to develop faster, more exact ways to detect possibly deadly substances.

With a five-year, $7 million research grant and a partnership with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, Purdue has launched the Center for Food Safety Engineering to develop methods to find, identify, and eradicate microbes and chemicals.

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