Controlling 
Annual Conference 2014 2014 Governor's Conference on Ensuring Food Safety: E. coli O157:H7 and other STECs – Progress and Challenges
& STEC CAP Conference
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman to Open Conference
The first combined "Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Coordinated Agricultural Project (STEC CAP) Annual Meeting" and "The Governor's Conference on Ensuring Food Safety" will be held May 27-29, 2014, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska.
This conference will highlight recent research on the full spectrum of the E. coli problem along the entire food production, processing, and consumption continuum. The conference will host presentations from leading experts on the biology and ecology of STEC and its modes of pathogenesis, transmission and epidemiology, as well as validation of pre-harvest and post-harvest intervention strategies and populating a quantitative microbial risk assessment platform to communicate and disseminate information and mitigation strategies for this pathogen.
See our conference page for more details.
What We Have Done Summer 2013
Dr Dan Thompson recognized as one of the top 20 beef and dairy cattle veterinarians in the country
Nebraska to be the new #1 cattle feeding state
Davey Griffin named an AMSA Fellow and is a recipient of the 2013 AMSA Signal Service Award
Spring 2013
Video Observation and Video Coding Methods to Access Food Handling Practices at Food Service
20 years after deadly E. coli outbreak, some food safety standards fading
Seminar Announcment: Meat Safety Management in a Complex World by Scott Goltry, Vice President of Technical Services, American Meat Institute, February 26th, 4:00pm The live stream will be available at
http://www.vet.k-state.edu/liveStream/liveStream.htm
Fall 2012
UNL 2012 Research Report: Reducing Health Risks from E. coli
Nebraska Farmer November issue: "UNL leading effort to corral E. coli"
Secretary's Honor Award to member of the USDA STEC Team (Source: USDA-ARS)
Cost of E. coli O157 infections at $244 million annually in Canada (Source: meatingplace.com)
North Carolina fair linked to E. coli outbreak (barfblog.com)
Table of petting zoo outbreaks (Source: Bites KSU)
Research at Level-3 Laboratory Paving the Way for Food Safety, Health For All
Barf Blog Food safety news from North Carolina State's Ben Chapman
Tweets by @benjaminchapmanBites - Safe Food from Farm to Fork Food safety news from Kansas State University
