Articles Tagged with ''pathogens''

Wherever there are bacteria, very likely there are bacteriophages attacking them.

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was created to ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply. FSMA shifts industry focus from responding to contamination, to preventing it, making food processors take a more proactive approach to eliminating and preventing foodborne contaminants from entering their plants.

Winston Churchill once said that Americans are a great people in that you could always count on them to do the right thing, once they had tried everything else.

Apparently, the cure for nasty foodborne pathogens has been hiding in our yogurt all along. Lactic acid, which is a product of nature and dissolves without any chemical residue, is one of many natural acids fighting the good fight against pathogens on carcasses today.

The original AOAC-RI approval from June 2012 covered the use of the ANSR system to detect Salmonella in food matrices that included raw ground beef, raw ground turkey, chicken carcass rinse, hot dogs and more.

Did tougher food-safety regulations lead to advances in antimicrobial applications over the last year?

On May 7, 2012, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) posted a Federal Register Notice titled: “Traceback, Recall Procedures for Escherichia coli O157:H7 Positive Raw Beef Product, and Availability of Compliance Guidelines.”

A reliable rapid-detection system has been a desire of all sectors of the food industry for decades. As sound science has developed over the years, technology companies have found new solutions to meet the demands to test for various pathogens, while obtaining quicker results.

On March 5, 2012, the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) adulteration decision on the top six non-O157 STECs (pathogenic STEC, or pSTEC) is due to become effective for raw, non-intact beef products made from cattle slaughtered on or after that date.