In this bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Brandon Carter, D.V.M., Food Safety Technical Advisor for Elanco Animal Health, about the importance of pre-harvest diagnostics in food safety risk management.
Primerdesign recently launched its new genesig® Easy_oys Detection Kit for Norovirus in oysters, a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay capable of producing results onsite in as little as four hours.
Kerry recently celebrated the opening of a new BSL-2-certified Food Protection and Preservation Lab at the company’s Beloit Innovation Center in in Beloit,
Wisconsin.
Spectacular Labs Inc. and the Canadian Center for Meat Innovation and Technology (CMIT) have entered an early access agreement in which Canadian meat and poultry producers will be able to use the Spectacular OneTouch platform to validate assay performance and demonstrate its intuitive workflow.
Researchers from Purdue
University have developed a new biosensor-based rapid test that can detect fecal contamination of produce in-field with 90–100 percent accuracy.
With a focus on fresh-cut produce in the U.S./North America, this article explores critical questions related to the improvement and modernization of the microbial outbreak investigation process.
A recent article identifies the challenges associated with allergenicity assessments of novel proteins and proposes a potential framework to prioritize proteins for allergenicity assessment.
The European Commission is taking strides to improve honey authenticity, including setting new origin labeling requirements, and the development of harmonized traceability requirements and improved methods of composition analysis and origin tracing. The Commission is assembling a group of experts called the “Honey Platform” to advise this work and is accepting applications.
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