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Fighting Foodborne Illness

Sadhana Ravishankar has spent her career keeping agricultural products in Arizona safe, and was recently awarded Inventor of the Year by Tech Launch Arizona for developing natural antimicrobial washes.
by Bryan Nelson

University of Arizona Professor Sadhana Ravishankar has spent her career keeping agricultural products in Arizona safe and was recently awarded Inventor of the Year by Tech Launch Arizona after her lab developed natural antimicrobial washes for produce. Her work has become especially important in an agricultural state like Arizona, where so many of our winter salad vegetables are grown.

Producer: Bryan Nelson
Videographers: Gage Judd, Jandro Davalos, Bryan Nelson
Editors: Jandro Davalos, Bryan Nelson

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