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Doug-B
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. announced a formal agreement to make the oversight of food more efficient and effective by increasing the coordination between the two agencies. The formal agreement outlines efforts to increase interagency collaboration, efficiency and effectiveness on produce safety and biotechnology activities while providing clarity to manufacturers. Perdue said “…formal agreement to promote coordination and the streamlining of capacities and obligations on shared concerns and jurisdiction,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D said, “Secretary Perdue and I share a deep commitment to further strengthening our nation’s food safety system in the most effective and transparent way,”. @ https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm594424.htm
FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb and USDA Secretary Perdue launched an effort today to increase collaboration, efficiency and effectiveness, and provide clarity to food producers.
Dan-W
A challenge in space travel is how to bring along enough food for the trip. Until now the solution was the growth of vegetables in hydroponic chambers. Professor Christopher House at Penn State University is developing a method of turning human waste directly into edible and nutritious substance. This is done by treating astronauts waste with microbes and producing an edible biomass either directly or indirectly depending on safety concerns. @ https://phys.org/news/2018-01-microbes-astronauts-human-food.html
Human waste may one day be a valuable resource for astronauts on deep-space missions. Now, a Penn State research team has shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid and liquid waste to grow food with a series of microbial reactors, while simultaneously minimizing pathogen growth.