Proceedings of the Workshop on Biological Control of Heliothis: Increasing the effectiveness of natural enemies. 11–15111985, New Delhi, India. Edited by E. G. King & R. D. Jackson. 550 pp. (Far Eastern Regional Research Office, US Department of Agriculture, New Delhi, India, 1989)

1991 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dent
1987 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Jonathan W White

Abstract Jonathan W. White, Jr, received the AOAC Harvey W. Wiley Award at the 100th AOAC Annual International Meeting and Exposition in Scottsdale, AZ, September 15, 1986. In 1942, after earning his Ph.D. at Purdue University, White became assistant chemist at the Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Wyndmoor, PA, where he spent almost his entire professional career. In 1948, he began the extensive research on honey for which he was selected as the 1986 Wiley Award recipient. He was named chief of the ERRC Plant Products Laboratory in 1965; 10 years later he requested reassignment to conduct research on the detection of adulteration of honey by high-fructose corn syrup. He retired from USDA in 1978 and until recently headed a honey testing service called Honeytech, Inc. White was elected a Fellow of AOAC in 1969 and was named Associate Referee of the Year in 1977


1988 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-654
Author(s):  
Robert L Buchanan ◽  
James L Smith ◽  
Heidi G Stahl ◽  
Deborah L Archer

Abstract Listeria methods research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Eastern Regional Research Center, has concentrated on 2 areas during the past year. The first was development of techniques for assessing isolation methods for their ability to detect sublethally stressed cells. It appears that a number of widely used media do not accurately detect Listeria that have been injured by thermal processing or acidification. The second was development of improved plating media. One, modified Vogel-Johnson agar, shows promise; it is highly selective and quantitative, and eliminates the need to select colonies on the basis of a blue color when illuminated with reflected light


1984 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-239
Author(s):  
Robert A Gates ◽  
John W Pensabene ◽  
Fiddler Walter

Abstract The recently developed Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC) dry column chromatographic procedure for determining A'-nitrosopyrrolidine (NPYR) in fried cure-pumped bacon was evaluated for its applicability to fried dry-cured bacon. The method was then compared with 2 established procedures for volatile nitrosamine analysis in cured meat products: the multidetection thermal energy analyzer (MD) method and the mineral oil distillation (MOD) screening procedure. No significant difference (P < 0.05) in NPYR values was found between the ERRC and MD procedures, but significant differences were found between the ERRC and MOD procedures and between the MOD and MD procedures. No artifactual nitrosamine formation was found in the ERRC procedure, but significant amounts were found in samples analyzed by the MOD procedure. The ERRC method was demonstrated to be rugged and very rapid. It is proposed that the ERRC method replace the MOD method as the official screening procedure for NPYR in fried bacon.


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