EW GROUP, a German strategic holding company in the field of animal breeding, health, nutrition and diagnostics, has announced the acquisition of Hygiena, a food safety and environmental testing solutions company.

KPM Analytics Inc. recently announced that it has acquired EyePro System S.r.l., a company headquartered in Trento, Italy, that specializes in vision inspection technology and vision-based process control solutions for the baking and snack industries.

While many facilities are focusing on the proper precautions for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and maintaining a healthy and safe work environment, Goodway Technologies is sharing a reminder to be proactive to reducing the risk of a harmful bacteria that continues to impact facilities—Legionella.

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.

Hygiena has announced that the new quantification application (SalQuant™) of the BAX® System Real-Time (RT) PCR Assay for Salmonella has now received AOAC-RI Performance Tested Method^SM approval.

For more than 75 years, Eriez® magnetic separation products have protected consumer safety and processor brand reputation by eliminating metal contamination in food products.

BIOTECON Diagnostics is pleased to announce that its foodproof Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) Screening LyoKit and STEC Identification LyoKit, in combination with its extraction kit, StarPrep Three, have now received AOAC-RI Performance Tested Methods^SM  Certification (Certificate No. 102004).

Fortress Technology's newest generation of digital food metal detectors—including the Interceptor and Interceptor DF—feature the very latest ARM microprocessors.

Wearwell is now offering PortionPac Germicidal Disinfectant for footbath mats.

Gravity flow metal detectors are an essential part of the processing of any dry granular or particulate product, and are used in many diverse industries, from food and pharmaceuticals to plastics—wherever dry products are gravity-fed into mixtures.