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From: Food Quality Magazine, 1.29.13
Features
China Compensates Food Safety Whistleblowers
Outsized rewards may help protect consumers
In the U.S., the Food Safety Modernization Act includes specific protections for whistleblowers who report food safety violations, but China has taken that one step further. On January 15, China’s State Food and Drug Administration announced that individuals who report food and drug safety violations could receive a reward ranging from 1% to 6% of the value of the products involved—up to 300,000 yuan (about $50,000).
Using Microsphere Technology to Speed Pathogen Screening
High-level multiplexing is goal of Australian researchers
Australian researchers are fine-tuning a new, more efficient genotyping platform for pathogen screening, leveraging microsphere bead technology to carry out multiplexed PCR assays to simultaneously test multiple gene variants without the need for unique internal probes customized for each target.
