Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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Prime Food USA is recalling Latis brand Herring Fillet 'Matiej', Salmon Fillet Slices and Herring Fillet 'Forelka' in oil due to listeria monocytogenes contamination, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The products ...
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Posted by Jack Mans, Plant Operations Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/16/2013 3:38:26 PM Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food ...
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Manda Packing is expanding its recall to include approximately 468,000 pounds of roast beef, ham, turkey breast, tasso pork, ham shanks, hog head cheese, corned beef, and pastrami over concerns that the products may be contaminated with ...
US-based Publix Super Markets is voluntarily recalling its Deli Tri Fruit and Grain Salad as it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recall was initiated after Publix received notification of the potential contamination ...
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Microbes lurk almost everywhere, from fresh food and air filters to toilet seats and folding money. Most of the time, they are harmless to humans. But sometimes they aren't. Every year, thousands of people sicken from E. coli ...
Michigan Technological University (MTU) researcher Jaroslaw Drelich has developed a new copper-based antimicrobial compound which can make the food supply safer. Drelich, a professor of materials science and engineering, has developed a ...
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Hot Springs Packing of Arkansas is recalling approximately 6,120 pounds of chicken polish sausage and chicken breakfast as they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food ...
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Australia-based Melbourne Kosher Meats has recalled Chicken and Veal Wurst as they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The product associated with the recall is ...
Byron Center Wholesale Meats of Michigan is recalling approximately 6,586 pounds of ham products as they were produced without a Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP) plan, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s ...
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Biotechnology firm Intralytix has received generally recognized as safe (GRAS) certification from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its food safety product, SalmoFresh. SalmoFresh is an antimicrobial preparation for controlling ...
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Minnesota Valley Testing Laboratories (MVTL) has deployed Roka Bioscience's Atlas System along with the Atlas Listeria detection assay and the Atlas Salmonella detection assay, which received AOAC Performance TestedSM certification. ...
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Swedo-Danish cooperative Arla Foods is voluntarily recalling Mauri brand Gorgonzola cheese, a product of Italy, in Canada as it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The ...
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US-based Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced SureTect PCR system that offers test efficiencies for food safety laboratories involved in the testing of common bacterial pathogens. With the new system, the food safety laboratories can ...
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DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced that a new assay for detecting foodborne Salmonella with the DuPont BAX system Institute.has been certified as Performance Tested method by the AOAC Research This assay uses powerful polymerase ...