Neil Mermelstein

Neil H. Mermelstein

Food safety is a major concern of the food industry, and instrumentation companies are continuously working on providing new and improved rapid methods for testing foods for pathogens. The Food Safety & Quality columns in April 2011 and November 2011 described various approaches and products for pathogen testing, and this month’s column discusses two additional products.Lysate from enriched samples is added to reagent tubes, which are subsequently loaded into the 3M Molecular Detection System for isothermal DNA amplification and bioluminescence detection.

Molecular Detection System Introduced
The 3MMolecular Detection System from 3M Food Safety (www.3m.com) comb…

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IFT Fellow
Editor Emeritus of Food Technology
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Neil Mermelstein
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