At the IAFNS 2022 Annual Meeting and Science Symposium, Dr. Felicia Wu discussed her recent study that suggests aflatoxin will become an increasing problem for U.S. corn producers—especially in the Corn Belt—and explored possible solutions. 

A study by scientists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s CFSAN and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ARS provides insight about factors that affect the presence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in bagged romaine lettuce.

A study has been published by the Roslin Institute that pinpointed genes in chickens that could offer resistance to harmful bacteria found in poultry, like Campylobacter.

The International Journal of Infectious Diseases recently published “Outbreaks of Foodborne Salmonella Enteritidis in The United States 1990–2015: Epidemiologic and Spatial-temporal Trends Analyses" in the journal's February issue. 

Thermo Fisher Scientific is working with governmental, industry, and contract testing laboratories to create a standard dataset that will accelerate the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in food authenticity, by giving analyzers the ability to test with confidence.