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Open house and tours for the Steve Troxler Agricultural Sciences Center March 30 Story Date: 3/29/2022
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Source: NCDA&CS, 3/28/22
WHO/WHAT:
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Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is hosting an open house celebrating the completion of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ largest ever building project. The event will include tours of the necropsy, fuel quality and biological labs.
Program
speakers include Commissioner Troxler, EPA Region Four Chief of Staff John
Nicholson, Representative Jimmy Dixon, Senator Brent Jackson, Golden LEAF
President and Chief Executive Office Scott Hamilton, HH Architecture CEO
Kristen Hess, JE Dunn Vice President Rich Cerretti and TA Loving CEO and
Board Chairman Sam Hunter.
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WHEN:
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Wednesday,
March 30
Media availability with Commissioner Troxler begins at 9:30 a.m. Program
begins at 10 a.m.
Tours will be offered following the program
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WHERE:
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Steve
Troxler Agricultural Sciences Center
4400 Reedy Creek Road, Raleigh, NC 27607
Media-only parking will be available on-site.
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MORE INFO:
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The Steve Troxler Agricultural Sciences Center replaces seven facilities used by the department’s Food and Drug Protection, Standards, Structural Pest Control and Pesticides, and Veterinary divisions. The labs in the facility conduct tests pertaining to food safety, animal disease diagnosis, weights and measures calibration, and motor fuel quality. More than five acres of offices, training rooms and labs are located in the building.
This
is the first opportunity to tour the facility since move-in was complete in
late summer 2021. Funding for the building came through the passage of the
Connect NC Bond in 2016.
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