Items Tagged with 'pathogen detection'

Bio-Rad Laboratories’ new EZ-Check Salmonella Kit is a rapid, polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based detection method for Salmonella in food and environmental matrices.

The new GENE-UP® TYPER solution from bioMérieux combines a PCR pathogen detection assay with a machine learning-based web application, facilitating root cause analysis of contamination incidents in the food industry.

Researchers have developed a 3D-printed, microfluidic chip sensor that uses light to rapidly detect important foodborne pathogens at concentrations as low as 10 CFU/ml.

bioMérieux's GENE-UP® Pathogenic Escherichia coli assay has been selected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (USDA’s FSIS’) Field Service Laboratories as the primary method for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) detection.

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.

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.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) has selected bioMérieux’s GENE-UP® CAMPYLOBACTER assay for use in its Field Service Laboratories.  

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) is planning to implement new detection approaches in its laboratories and will update the associated Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook chapters.

Researchers in Japan have developed a novel method to accurately detect Escherichia albertii, which is an emerging zoonotic foodborne pathogen with increasing relevance in the country, and is also often misidentified as E. coli.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $611,000 to University at Albany researchers to develop a rapid, portable, colorimetric Salmonella detection kit for food products.