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BRI provides tools to accelerate research and help protect agriculture economy
In: Animal Health| Food Supply| KSU| Livestock| Manhattan| NBAF| National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility| Safety| Scientific Research
16 Aug 2010Check out this article to learn more about why Manhattan and K-State were chosen for NBAF.
Here are a couple of highlights:
Porcine circovirus associated diseases cost pig producers around the world hundreds of millions of dollars each year…
“That’s why Kansas State University virologists Dick Hesse and Bob Rowland have been working to create new vaccines to [...]
Why is food safety important?
In: Food Supply| KSU| NBAF| National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility| Safety
10 Aug 2010K-State, who is partnering with NBAF to protect America’s food supply, has a great audio about why the NBAF project is so important.
You can listen to it here.
The NBAF: safeguarding our food supply
In: Federal Research Lab| Food Supply| Livestock| NBAF| National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility| Safety| Scientific Research| Veterinary Medicine
6 Aug 2010Even more imminent than the threat of a rogue nuclear attack in the next five years is the threat of an attack by biological weapons, according to the World at Risk report issued late last year by former senators Bob Graham of Florida and Jim Talent of Missouri.
This is a view reinforced by numerous other [...]
Agricultural, biological defense lab in right place
In: Animal Health| Federal Research Lab| Food Supply| Kansas| Manhattan| NBAF| National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility| Safety| Scientific Research| Veterinary Medicine
21 Jul 2010Recently, Joerg Ohle, president and general manager with Bayer Health Care LLC, Animal Health Division in Shawnee had a great Op-Ed in the Kansas City Star. He discusses the urgent need for the NBAF and applauds the Federal Government for the painstaking work it did to approve Manhattan as the location.
Here’s the Op-Ed:
“Having lived and [...]
The NBAF: a modern, scientific agricultural research facility with state-of-the-art safety, security and world-class results
In: Animal Health| Federal Research Lab| Food Supply| Livestock| NBAF| National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility| Safety| Scientific Research| Veterinary Medicine
10 Jul 2010The federal government is taking decisive action to modernize the nation’s animal disease research infrastructure, with the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility set to bring our efforts to protect the food supply and agriculture economy into the 21st century.
This is a very important development for American science — and one that some experts say is [...]
The NBAF: addressing critical biological threats
In: Federal Research Lab| Food Supply| NBAF| National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility| Safety| Scientific Research| Veterinary Medicine
25 Jun 2010A recent Associated Press story out of Washington today once again highlights the urgent need to address biological threats — some of the very threats the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility will combat with its research to protect the American food supply and agriculture economy. The basis of the article is a new report, “The [...]
NBAF quick fact
In: Federal Research Lab| Food Supply| KSU| Livestock| NBAF| National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility| Safety| Scientific Research| Veterinary Medicine
22 Jun 2010When the state-of-the-art NBAF is built in Manhattan, its research will protect the American food supply and agriculture economy, and the safety of the site and surrounding community will be paramount.
With security built into every part of this world-class science facility, the NBAF will contain a BSL-4 lab, which will be self-contained and isolated from [...]
NBAF in Kansas
Kansas State University has been selected as the future home of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) — once
again highlighting the state’s deep agricultural heritage, bioscience expertise, research infrastructure, world-class animal
health industry, and strong public support.
The $650 million research facility will provide the country with an urgently needed, state-of-the-art lab to protect the food supply and agriculture economy. Kansas is exceptionally well suited to accelerate the achievement of this mission.
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