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As ARS pursues a green agenda, workers at the agency's 100 or so labs across the country are demonstrably patriotic in their quest. "We're trying to help American farmers, help our country, make us less dependent on foreign oil," says Greg Glenn, an ARS engineer in Albany, Calif...
The agency gets little public recognition, and that's just fine. It sticks to the science and leaves product development and marketing--and the glory--to others. Glenn invented some nonfood uses for wheat starch, including a biodegradable version of Styrofoam food containers. His work is being incorporated in various...
ARS is eager to raise its profile in the business community, however, by passing out information-packed CD-ROMs at trade shows and signing up thousands of executives to receive e-mail updates on new technologies available for licensing. But the driving force isn't cash; ARS collects a mere...
For the future, the agency is concentrating in part on products that will contribute to the battle against obesity. In addition to concocting low-calorie fat substitutes, ARS researchers are working to make healthy food more nutritious and more convenient. The trick, of course, is getting us not to eat...
As for Emery's Featherfiber Corp., which licensed the feather-separating technique from ARS five years ago, it's continuing to tweak the production method at its headquarters in Nixa, Mo., while seeking investment for a full-scale factory. Emery has already demonstrated several applications for the fiber, and the...