Growing public concern could foster significant change in European food safety systems, and increased regulations and testing volumes should follow suit, according to “Food Micro, Sixth Edition: Food Microbiology Testing in Europe,” a new market report from Strategic Consulting, Inc., a leading knowledge resource for industrial diagnostics.
Europe is a substantial market for food safety microbiology testing. The population of the 27 countries of the European Union is 500 million, nearly 60% greater than the US population. Altogether, EU countries performed an estimated 275 million food micro tests in 2011. In comparison, there were 213 million such tests conducted in the US in 2010.
I am not sure of the figures but it would be very interesting to see what proportion of the European testing the UK undertook.
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