Microbiology News: food-beverage, Sep 2014

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Microbiology News: food-beverage, Sep 2014

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Food Safety Summit Outbreak Most Likely C. perfringens

29 Sep 2014 | Food & Beverage

Clostridium perfringens is thought to be the most likely cause of a food poisoning outbreak at the Food Safety Summit 2014, a buffet dish of chicken masala may have been held at too low a temperature. more...

Microbank® - the Proven Culture Storage System

25 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Microbank is the original culture storage system with a well proven track record of efficient storage and retrieval of bacterial (including fastidious and anaerobic) and fungal cultures, currently used in microbiology labs worldwide including many reference culture collections. more...

Seward Gains ISO14001 for Environmental Management

23 Sep 2014 | Food & Beverage

Seward is now recycling 85% of all its plastic, paper and cardboard material waste from production of stomacher bags and looking to collaborate to reduce environmental impact of laboratory testing. more...

Water-Based Total Aflatoxin Rapid Test USDA-GIPSA Approved

23 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageOther

Romer Labs® new AgraStrip® Total Aflatoxin Quantitative WATEX is solvent free, limit of detection is 3ppb and a total time-to-result of 8 minutes including extraction, now USDA-GIPSA approved. more...

Consider an Alternative to Your Existing Media Supply

23 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Pre-poured culture media for every microbiology lab, Southern Group Laboratories supply ready-to-use liquid and agar plates for pharmaceutical, food and clinical labs. more...

Bigger Capacity Benchtop Autoclave Meets Customer Wish List

22 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Ideal autoclave for labs with limited space and infrequent sterilisation needs, the Priorclave H60 with a horizontal 60 litre capacity is suited for a wide range of applications such as media prep, lab waste, liquids and diluents, glassware and apparatus. more...

New Alpha Laboratories Catalogue – Over 1,000 New Products

22 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Alpha Laboratories new catalogue includes an extended range of lab and clinical consumables, available to download or you can receive a hardcopy by post. more...

3M Molecular Detection Assay Listeria monocytogenes Earns AOAC PTM Approval

22 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageOther

AOAC® Performance Tested Methods program (Certification #051401) certifies that the test kit is now considered equivalent or better than standard reference methods for select food matrices by the international organization. more...

Mérieux NutriSciences Acquires Sino Analytica

15 Sep 2014 | Food & Beverage

Mérieux NutriSciences scientific service offers service for food safety testing has now improved it's service for food safety and chemistry innovation in China. more...

foodproof® Range Extended to Food Allergen Detection

08 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageOther

Food allergen detection from BIOTECON includes Celery, Peanut, Hazelnut, Soya, Gluten Detection - using quantitative real-time PCR, suitable for most food types, run on standard PCR instruments. more...

Campylobacter Chicken Survey - Retailers to be Named and Shamed

08 Sep 2014 | Food & Beverage

Campylobacter survey on chickens by the UK Food Standards Agency will in future name retailers, alongside campylobacter levels, when it releases its next set of results in November 2104. more...

Silliker Implements RIDASCREEN® for Gluten Analysis

04 Sep 2014 | Food & Beverage

RIDASCREEN® is a quantitative ELISA for the presence of the R5 monoclonal antibody as recommended by Codex Alimentarius. AOAC RI approved, RIDASCREEN® is widely accredited for the quantitation of gluten prolamins in food. more...

Soft Ripened Cheese Recall Due to Staph Toxin

02 Sep 2014 | Food & Beverage

Recent Canadian recall of soft ripened cheese in Canada due to Staphylococcal Enterotoxin. Find detection kits for Staph toxin in foods. more...

Microbiological Safety of Nuts and Seeds: New Guidance from Campden BRI

02 Sep 2014 | Food & Beverage

There have been a number of food safety incidents in recent years involving pathogens such as Salmonella, which have been found on low moisture foods such as nuts and seeds. Campden BRI Guideline 73 provides advice on the problem. more...

Summer Issue of Lab M’s Min-e-Cat Now Available

02 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterOtherPharmaceutical

Lab M newsletter highlights the recent introduction of two new product ranges, Pinnacle™ pre-poured plates and the µPrep™ line of bagged, ready-to-reconstitute media. more...

Industrial Microbiology to Reach 2 Billion Tests in 2014

02 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageOtherPharmaceutical

New market report on industrial (food, beverage, pharmaceutical etc. ) microbiology worldwide shows testing volume will reach 2 billion in 2014, based on primary research with more than 650 production facilities in 23 countries in North America, Europe and Asia, including China and India. more...

For Better Results Tomorrow, Choose Medical Wire Today

01 Sep 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Inoculating loop range from Medical Wire includes Microloops® Plastic in three volumetric sizes, Microloops® Nichrome 5 in six volumetric sizes, calibrated Nichrome 5 or Platinum Microloops® more...

Water Extracted Aflatoxin Test Gets USDA-GIPSA Approval

01 Sep 2014 | Food & Beverage

Charm's ROSA WET-S5 Aflatoxin Quantitative Test (AFQ-WETS5) is a quantitative test for the detection of 5 to 100 ppb aflatoxin in a single 5 minute assay without the need for ethanol or methanol extraction. more...