date:Jul 13, 2012
Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will also participate in the project.
This initiative shows great promise as we look to improve our ability to identify and track down potential sources of foodborne outbreaks, said USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Elisabeth Hagen. FSIS intends to submit important bacterial strains from our regulatory testing program for sequencing at UC Davis, and we look forward to the benefits this public database could provide federal, state an