Featured Bacterial Detection Articles

  1. Meat Industry Will See New & Improved Salmonella Performance Standards 9/19/2014

    Poultry Inspection Modernization is only the first step in FSIS’s Salmonella Action Plan.

  2. Food And Water Watch Vs. The USDA's “Filthy Chicken Rule” 9/18/2014

    The consumer action group is attacking the United States Department of Agriculture over Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection.

  3. Does The Public View Your Brand As Safe? 9/4/2014

    As the public’s perception is the public’s truth, the opinion of the masses can affect you company’s image as well as its pocketbook.

  4. Chicken Caesar Salad Kits Recalled From Sam's Clubs Nationwide 8/28/2014

    A Southern California food processing company, APPA Fine Foods, based in Corona, CA, has issued a recall for almost 93,000 pounds of salad due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination

  5. Six Advances That Are Improving Food Safety 8/27/2014

    New practices and applications are being developed in order to provide food processors with the equipment necessary to more efficiently and economically comply with food safety requirements

  6. Ongoing-Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Sickens More Than 200 8/13/2014

    A source has yet to be identified in the most recent cyclosporiasis outbreak, which now encompasses 19 states and New York City.

  7. Salmonella — The Deadly Truth About Cross-Contamination 8/12/2014

    Salmonella knows no boundaries. The evidence of cross-contamination is the fact that in all instances of outbreaks, only a small percentage of cases are traced back to the original source —though pathological testing links the outbreak’s specific strains.

  8. Cargill's Risk-Assessment Tool Is Shaping Its Shrimp Farms' Biosecurity 8/11/2014

    The company’s new tool is the next step in an effort to mitigate the effects of the bacteria vibrio.

  9. FSIS Wants Proof Of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Strains Being Exceptionally Dangerous 8/6/2014

    More than three years after the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s petition requested adulterant status for antibiotic-resistant Salmonella, FSIS declines to act

  10. Food-Illness Outbreak Investigations Will Be Transformed By Rapid Whole-Genome Testing 7/31/2014

    Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis may become a thing of the past. Rapid Whole-Genome Testing is expected to replace it with lab-friendly, bench-top equipment and the unsurpassed ability to identify specific pathogenic DNA.