The International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) have awarded Ceeram, Nantes, France with the Food Safety Innovation Award for their detection methods for enteric viruses in foods. Detection of Norovirus is difficult using ELISA techniques due to their genetic diversity. The advantages of the ceeramTools RT-PCR assays are:

• RESULTS IN LESS THAN 2H30
• ADAPTATIVE TO DIFFERENT THERMOCYCLORS
• EXCELLENT SENSITIVITY (1 TO 10 COPIES)
• SPECIFICITY (ALL GENOTYPES DETECTED)
• RELIABLE RESULTS
• EASY TO PERFORM

The IAFP annual meeting will be in Charlotte, North Carolina July 28-31.