Approaches to Pathogen Screening

Food safety is undoubtedly the most important concern of the food industry, and several companies have introduced or plan to introduce new instruments for testing for foodborne pathogens. Here are three examples.

System Based on PCR
Life Technologies Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif. (www.lifetechnologies.com), earlier this year announced that it had launched the first real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection system to test for Salmonella Enteritidis in poultry eggs. The U.S. Food and Drug Admi…