Fields & Feedlots
The USGS Food Resources Lifecycle Integrated Science Team (Food IST) under the Environmental Health Program in the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area follows One Health science to address high priority issues related to human and wildlife exposures to environmental contaminants and pathogens that correspond to the production, processing, and manufacturing of plant and animal products.
Goals of the Food IST team's research around contaminants are to understand their sources and fate through the environment, identify if there are adverse effects upon exposure to wildlife and humans, generate information needed for decision makers to help protect ecological, wildlife, and human health, and communicate findings to the scientific community and to the public. This geonarrative reviews the Food IST team's research work, as well as outreach efforts nationwide.
