WSU Center of Excellence

Washington State University has received a $4 million grant to establish a Center of Excellence designed to improve food safety and quality.

Regents Professor Juming Tang will oversee the Center and noted the school has been working with food safety for the past 20 years but this Center will, “Give a platform so that we can reduce the knowledge gaps and engineering gaps that we need to bridge.”

The Center has a national scope, but Tang said they will focus heavily on local producers.

Tang hopes the all aspects of agriculture take advantage of the opportunity to learn from the research and, “See what our technology can do to help them in making very high quality meals safe and free from pathogens and deliverable to a market.”

The grant was issued by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and is the first Center funded through the program.

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