Manhattan ? Kansas State University says Cargill Inc. has given the university $500,000 to help fund a new feed safety research center.

The university said in a news release Tuesday that researchers at the Cargill Center of Feed Safety Research will study pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli to address current food and feed safety issues.

The center will be housed in the university’s grain science and industry complex. It will be part of the new O.H. Kruse Feed Mill and Biorefinery Teaching and Research Center.

The university’s departments of grain science and industry and animal sciences and industry will operate the Cargill research center.