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Committee lays over $371,000 bill to study prion uptake in crops amid CWD concerns
Summary
House File 2,778 would fund MnPRO (Center for Prion Research and Outreach) to study whether chronic wasting disease prions are taken up by crops and remain infectious; committee heard scientists and laid the bill over for further consideration.
House File 2,778, carried by Chair Hansen, would provide funding—$371,000 as stated by the author—to the University of Minnesota’s MnPRO (Center for Prion Research and Outreach) to research uptake of chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions by plants and possible impacts on crop growth and food safety.
Dr. Peter Larson, associate professor and co-director of the University of Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach, told the committee that CWD is…
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