Secure Food Systems receives USDA award to modernize risk assessments

Pomeroy Endowed Chair and VBS Professor Carol Cardona, and the Secure Food Systems team recently were featured in the write up "Secure Food Systems group secures USDA award to modernize risk assessments," which summarizes the groups new award from the USDA Animal Plant and Health Inspection Services. This award is part of a recent federal farm bill to study and revise six older risk assessments and permit guidelines relating to the egg-production industry.

Cardona and her team were integral in identifying potential risk assessments. Since then outbreaks, including four of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the country, have given scientists and regulators experience in control and mitigation strategies, as well as with permitted movements, and has caused them to revisit previous assumptions on which the original risk assessments were built.