Rapid Pathogen Screening Tools For Food Safety

Frequent food pathogen outbreaks and product recalls exert a huge economic burden on the United Sates economy, accounting for billions of dollars of losses each year. Application of broadband rapid pathogen screening tools to both pre-harvest and post-harvest products may be an effective strategy to produce safer foods. Spectral- or mammalian cell-based methods are ideal for high-throughput screening of microbes or toxins. Spectral-based light scattering sensors generate scatter signature of col…