NCFPD (the National Center for Food Protection and Defense) shows the process of cheesemaking in the University of Minnesota's Pilot Plant. Ray Miller, Coordinator of Pilot Plant Services, takes us through the steps of making white cheddar, and the precautions taken to make the cheese safe for consumption.

http://www.ncfpd.umn.edu/

http://fscn.cfans.umn.edu/researchandservices/pilotplant/index.htm

NCFPD's Elizabeth Cunningham and Kendra McCormack interview Shaun Kennedy and Amy Kircher, Director and Associate Director of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, about food protection and defense.

NCFPD's Kendra McCormack and Elizabeth Cunningham interview Jim Topie, an Agriculture Consultant with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture's Dairy and Food Inspection division, about food inspections.

NCFPD's Kendra McCormack and Elizabeth Cunningham interview Dave Wiemer of SUPERVALU about food safety and defense in the grocery business.

NCFPD's Amy Kircher interviews her uncle Vernon Schroeder of Schroeder Transfer, a trucking company in Minnesota. Mr. Schroeder has a long career of transporting food and livestock.

NCFPD's Elizabeth Cunningham and Kendra McCormack interview Farmer Bruce Bacon of Garden Farme, an organic farm in Ramsey, Minnesota. Farmer Bacon grows lettuces and greens for restaurants in the Minneapolis area.