Category Archives: Pathogen

US – Listeria monocytogenes Recall – Chicken Salad Products

Posted on February 8, 2012 by | Leave a comment

USDA

This seems to be another product which has been caught up in the Listeria monocytogenes in hard boiled eggs.

Bost Distributing Company doing business as Harold Food Company, a Bear Creek, N.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,200 pounds of chicken salad products. The products contain eggs that are the subject of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recall due to concerns about contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

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Posted in Eurofins Laboratories, Food Illness, Food Inspections, Food Poisoning, Food Safety, Food Safety Alert, Food Testing, Listeria, Listeria monocytogenes, outbreak, Pathogen, Recall, USDA

New Rapid Pathogen Test Kit – DIY?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Food Safety News

Detection technology being developed nanoRETE, a Michigan-based company, in conjunction with Michigan State University, will allow producers to test their products themselves, and to do it in under an hour.

The system, called X-MARK, works by using a pathogen’s antibodies to draw it out of a food sample via magnetic pull. These separated particles are then put on a biochip, which is fed into the reader, where an electric current will recognize a pathogen based on the pattern of its electrical current.

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Posted in Eurofins Laboratories, Food Technology, Microbiology, Pathogen