Neogen has made available next generation sequencing services for the food industry, which will allow food companies to accurately find all bacteria in a sample in a single genomic test. Neogen's new NeoSeek genomic services utilize a ...
Brown Packing is recalling beef (veal) trimmings as they may have been contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection ...
Tags: agriculture food, food production, beef
Vivione Biosciences, through its wholly owned subsidiary Vivione Biosciences, LLC, is proud to announce that it has received AOAC certification for its E. coli O157 and Non O157 STEC diagnostic tests for the RAPID-B platform. This is ...
International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) is offering free education programs for attendees on subjects affecting industry. Changing Food Landscape sessions will offer an overview of Salmonella and non-0157 E. coli. The ...
The DuPont BAX System has been certified by the AOAC Research Institute as a Performance Tested Method (PTM) for detecting Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) in beef trim and ground beef. "With this certification, our entire portfolio of ...
Tags: DuPont, Bax System, Pathogenic E.Coli
Western Digital plans to acquire sTec to boost its presence in the market for enterprise solid-state drives. The two companies have signed a definitive agreement under which sTec will be acquired by HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
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US-based Life Technologies, in partnership with Instituto de Medicina Genómica (IMEGEN), Spain, has developed the RapidFinder Equine ID Kit, which detects the presence of equine DNA extracted in meat samples. The kit can be used in ...
Tags: Life Technologies, IMEGEN, horse DNA
Flash storage vendor STEC is super-sizing the kind of flash storage used in smartphones and portable music players, coming out on Monday with 2TB SSDs in configurations for enterprise equipment vendors. The SSDs (solid-state drives) being ...
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Lab M has launched Captivate O104, an important new addition to its established range of immunomagnetic separation (IMS) products. Captivate O104 is designed to meet the increasing need to rapidly test fresh sprouted seeds for the presence ...
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Alere Inc received confirmation that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Techlab® Shiga Toxin Quik Chek test for the US market. Shiga Toxin Quik Chek is the only rapid diagnostic available that can detect Shiga ...
Tags: Alere Inc, Techlab, Shiga Toxin Quik Chek, E.coli
Neogen has announced that the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a letter of no objection for the use of Neogen's NeoSEEK pathogen DNA detection method to detect Shiga toxin-producing strains ...
SDIX has announced that its RapidChek CONFIRM non-O157 STEC Immunomagnetic Separation (IMS) test kit has been incorporated by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a tool for E.coli testing. On 4 June 2012, the USDA Food Safety ...
Tags: test kit, testing method, multiplexed lateral flow test strips