Featured Bacterial Detection Articles

31. How Is Your Facility's Compressed-Air Quality? 11/14/2014

    Microbial and solid contaminants can infiltrate compressed-air systems and cause food contamination at points of both direct and indirect contact, on food and food-contact surfaces. Is your system doing everything it can to prevent this?

32. Fighting Foodborne Illnesses With Spray-On, DNA Barcodes 11/10/2014

    A new company in California is currently developing a barcode product to be sprayed directly on produce in an effort to prevent and suppress foodborne-illness outbreaks

33. Food Safety Consortium Provides Unlimited Training Opportunities 11/7/2014

    The multi-conference venue is a one-stop location for just about anything and everything having to do with food safety.

34. 7 Must-Haves In Your Sanitation SOP 10/28/2014

    Every facility, though not necessarily required to comply with FSMA must, regardless, have in place a Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure. This should be a well-rounded and adequately-documented procedure including the means with which to monitor and measure its successes and failures. Nothing less will be acceptable with the authority granted to the FDA and the Food Safety Inspection Service.

35. FSIS Begins Holding Beef Suppliers To A Higher Standard 10/22/2014

    The way the Food Safety and Inspection Service deals with positive E. coli tests at ground beef trim facilities is undergoing some marked changes

36. 5 Steps To Listeria Detection 10/21/2014

    Sample6 and a family-run business are illustrating how simple it is to prevent costly recalls while improving production time

37. False-Negative, Pathogenic-Test Results Are Higher Than You'd Think 10/6/2014

    Recent findings by the American Proficiency Institute for foodborne-pathogen testing don’t bode well for food safety or consumer confidence.

38. Foster Farms Issues Another Recall And How It Could've Been Prevented 9/29/2014

    A simple mistake at a Louisiana Foster Farms facility is the cause of the latest recall of Foster Farms’ pre-cooked chicken products.

39. Guilty Verdict Sets Precedent For Food-Safety Negligence 9/24/2014

    For the first time in American history, individuals, rather than entities of a company, responsible for perpetuating a foodborne-illness outbreak have been held accountable.

40. FDA's First Ever Food Safety Challenge Kicks-Off September 23, 2014 9/23/2014

    Do you have an innovation or technology that can detect foodborne pathogens? If so, the FDA would love to hear from you.