TSE research
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition to dedicate roughly $500,000 in fiscal 2002 to fund collaborative research on prevention of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in cosmetics, food additives, dietary supplements, CFSAN announces in request for applications published in April 11 Federal Register. Project aims to promote "development of surrogate and techniques to facilitate studies that will reliably predict the ability of treatments or manufacturing processes to inactivate the infectivity and biological activity of prions associated" with TSE diseases, CFSAN says. FDA will support collaborative agreements ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 per year for up to four years. Applications are due June 10...
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