The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have conducted a study to better understand the risks associated with certain foods prepared in retail delicatessens. ...
Tags: Food Safety, Food
Bert Rubinsky, CEO of Medical Grade Innovations (MGI), is announcing he has been issued a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on fabric with antimicrobial properties. The patent number is 13/207,392. The fabric, ...
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Corgenix Medical has received the notification of CE Mark for its Relasv antigen rapid test for Lassa fever diagnosis. Relasv is the diagnostic test developed by Corgenix and members of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), a ...
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Sagentia has completed initial alpha prototype development of the Resolution Microbial Genotyping system that it is developing for PathoGenetix. Pathogenetix's Resolution system can identify specific pathogen causing a foodborne illness ...
Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS) has entered into a collaboration agreement with Ahlstrom to use Ahlstrom Disruptor® technology for drinking water applications. DW&PS says that the agreement combines its R&D and manufacturing ...
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XL Group has introduced a new pollution insurance policy to help the North American food and beverage industry address their environmental liability, clean up and disaster response concerns. The new Environmental Food and Beverage policy ...
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The clothing worn by doctors and nursing staff plays an important role in breaking infection chains in healthcare systems. This has been shown in a study carried out in a hospital in Jerusalem (Israel) which examined the germ contamination ...
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Immunobiology (ImmBio), a UK-based biopharmaceutical company, has bagged £0.2m in funding from the UK government-backed Biomedical Catalyst (BBC) for the pre-clinical development of pneumococcal vaccine PnuBioVax. The pharma company ...
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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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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Researchers at the Institute of Food Research on the Norwich Research Park have uncovered how the food-borne bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni can change its behaviour according to the need for food or for finding a location suitable ...
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This study shows that constructed wetlands may be a sustainable alternative method for removing plant pathogens from greenhouse wastewater. The observed removal efficiency of 99.99% is an acceptable threshold for the industry. The lack of ...
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Research has shown that some bacterial cells carry a molecular ‘suicide complex’ to kill themselves in the event of lethal infection by viral parasites. Such ‘altruistic suicide’ prevents or limits viral replication ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to Quidel's non-instrumented molecular diagnostic assay, designed for the detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile (C difficile) bacterial DNA. The AmpliVue C. ...
Tags: FDA, Non-Instrumented C Difficile Detection Assay, medical technology