The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service has selected Kansas State University to direct the Center for Food Safety in Child Nutrition Programs. The research resulting from this partnership will help improve food safety in all of the USDA's child nutrition programs – which serve billion of meals to children each year.

Guest: Kevin Roberts, associate professor of hospitality management and Kevin Sauer, associate professor of food, nutrition, dietetics, and health, both at Kansas State University.

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