Testing and Analysis
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- Back-to-Back Outbreaks in Frozen and Dried Imported Coconut
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Here we explore foodborne illness outbreak investigations related to coconuts, highlight the challenges experienced, and share the food safety lessons learned.
- Is Zero Foreign Material Possible in Food Processing?
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Foreign material control is imperative in food processing, so creating the right culture, setting high expectations, and developing strong detection capabilities are key.
- Adoption of WGS: What Is Going On?
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Whole-genome sequencing has changed how the identification of outbreaks and harborage organisms is performed.
- The Growing Challenge of Safe Water for Use in Food Processing Operations
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Developing and implementing a comprehensive water-monitoring program is a fundamental and essential element of an effective food safety program.
- Trends in Food Safety Testing
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Food safety testing volumes are increasing and focus on Listeria.
- The Benefits and Barriers of Whole-Genome Sequencing for Pathogen Source Tracking: A Food Industry Perspective
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Whole-genome sequencing is a common tool for outbreak detection and investigation.
- Cannabis Edibles: Current Food Safety Practices
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A Cannabis edibles panel identifies industry best practices and challenges as this growing market moves forward.
- Analytical Testing in Food Safety Continues to Grow
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No trend has been reported as being more impactful than the increase in the amount of analytical testing being conducted—especially the increase in testing for microorganisms.
- Getting Sanitation out of the Reclean/Retest Rut
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Food companies and regulators have become increasingly vigilant for environmental pathogens in manufacturing facilities, with problems triggering swab-a-thons and even recalls.
- Simplifying Olive Oil Analysis
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Discover how using a charged aerosol detector can help olive oil producers identify adulterated product.
- Five Unusual Ways to Use Your Corporate Culture to Eliminate Foreign Material
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A strong culture of cross-functional teams engaged in problem solving at the plant level supports a consistent focus on foreign material prevention.
- Strategies for Organizing Environmental Monitoring Data for Optimal Trending and Root-Cause Analysis
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Trending environmental monitoring data can help with a root-cause analysis to uncover the origins of the positive finding and may inform the mitigation strategy.
- The ABCs of CBD
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The marketplace is filled with cannabidiol-based products in consumables and consumer products such as supplements, foods (human and animal), cosmetics, and beverages.
- Keys to Effective Monitoring for Listeria
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For ready-to-eat food processors, developing and implementing pathogen environmental monitoring programs are important parts of their sanitation controls.
- Contaminant Detection in Food Processing
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A new approach for significantly improving detection probabilities and reducing the need for manual verification of foreign material contamination of food products is described.
- STEC, EHEC, or E. coli O157? Differentiating between Targets
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains can cause foodborne illness, necessitating the expansion of testing for these organisms.
- Biosensor-Based Rapid Pathogen Detection: Are We There Yet?
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The ability to rapidly detect the presence of viable pathogens along the production chain is essential for determining intervention and control strategies.
- Does In-House Testing Provide a Competitive Advantage Over Partnering with a Third-Party Provider?
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Food safety testing can be conducted in-house or outsourced to a third-party laboratory. Which one is the right fit for your business?
- Foods Produced by Biotechnology: A Toxicologist’s Perspective on Intended vs. Unintended Changes
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Transgenic methods have been used for over 25 years to incorporate well-characterized genes from a foreign (different plant or nonplant species) donor into a plant host that endows it with some desirable trait.
- Using APGC to Improve Food Contaminant Monitoring
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As a result of the changing regulatory landscape, there is need for more accurate identification and quantification of contaminants in environmental and food-related samples.
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