Agricultural Research Service
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Cleaning poultry
A study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists has found that using a cleansing solution to wash eviscerated chicken carcasses was effective in removing bacteria that cause human foodborne diseases. The findings provide data that may be…
Agricultural Research Service | 11 June 2010
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Putting more nitrogen into milk
The more efficient dairy farmers are in managing nitrogen, the more milk their cows will produce and the less nitrogen will be wasted in manure and urine, according a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators. ARS soi…
Agricultural Research Service | 01 June 2010
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ARS launches new research briefs
The latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs (FNRB) reports that avenanthramides – compounds found in oats – decrease the expression of inflammatory molecules in arteries, and carts used to move eg…
Agricultural Research Service | 01 May 2010
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Tracing Listeria monocytogenes in a chicken cooking plant
Incoming raw poultry is the primary source of Listeria monocytogenes contamination in commercial chicken cooking plants, according to a 21-month study conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their collaborators at the Universi…
Agricultural Research Service | 22 April 2010
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Under lock and key
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) sent a shipment of seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway last month, which included a wild Russian strawberry that an expeditionary team braved bears and volcanoes to collect. This is ARS’ thir…
Agricultural Research Service | 01 April 2010
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Research cuts fat and calories from cakes and frostings
Delicious new cakes and frostings may someday contain less fat and fewer calories, thanks to work by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists such as Mukti Singh of the ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR). In ex…
Agricultural Research Service | 01 April 2010
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Vitamin D and calcium interplay explored
Increasing calcium intake is a common yet not always successful strategy for reducing bone fractures. But a study supported in part by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) underscores the importance of vitamin D and its ability to help the bod…
Agricultural Research Service | 17 March 2010
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Inventing new oat and barley breads
Delicious new all-oat or all-barley breads might result from laboratory experiments now being conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in California. Research chemist Wallace Yokoyama and postdoctoral nutritionist Hyunsook Kim w…
Agricultural Research Service | 10 March 2010
