1. Beef Safety Research Protect beef demand by maintaining and enhancing the safety of beef and beef products to ensure the sustainability of the beef industry.

2. Safety Research’s Contribution to Making Beef It’s Very Best Safety Threats Investigated –Understanding the pathogens that threaten beef safety

3. –Discovery and validation of interventions

4. Building and Utilizing the BIFSCo network –Beef Industry Safety Summit

5. –Best Practices

6. Making a Difference Post-harvest industry utilization of interventions Pre-harvest intervention validation & pending approvals Science-based information –For industry and regulator decisions –Provides focus for future investment –Basis for internal programs (PR, IM, etc.) BIFSCo cited as a leader for non-competitive, cooperative advancements

7. Speaker presentations –Dr. Guy Loneragan, West Texas A&M Universtiy Summary of completed research

8. FY 09 Research Program –13 projects – 8 Pre-harvest 5 Post-harvest –BIFSCo Safety Summit, new Best Practice documents, new website, outreach –Safety Research Monitoring white papers –Implementation and Knowledge Transfer