A new laboratory has been constructed at the Science Park in College Station,Texas,US,to allow rapid foodborne pathogen testing and characterization.
The new facility will provide support to the members of the Center for Food Safety,a collaborative effort by Texas A&M AgriLife Research,Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas A&M University reported the Pork Network.
According to the laboratory director Gary Acuff,the facility was designed in such way that all the activities in the laboratory can be viewed from outside the BioSafety Level 2 which will provide training and demonstration opportunities to enter a BL2 environment.
"This equipment provides automated sample analysis that include enumeration of bacterial indicators,immunoassays,bacterial isolate identification,antimicrobial susceptibility and multiple technologies for DNA detection.Our new Roka Atlas system will allow detection of salmonella or listeria from as many as 500 samples in one day,"added Acuff.
The equipment in the laboratory has been provided by food testing industries such as bioMerieux,BioControl,Neogen and Roka Bioscience.
