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From: Food Quality Magazine, 1.11.11
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HHS Makes Food Safety Focus of Disease Prevention Efforts
Government’s goals attainable with specific data, expert says
The government’s six main objectives for food safety for the next decade, recently unveiled as part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, are all “reasonable and attainable,” but they require additional data, according to Michael Doyle, PhD, Regents Professor of Food Safety and Microbiology and director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia in Griffin.
New Test May Speed Salmonella Detection
Method differentiates live and dead DNA
A lab test developed by researchers at the University of Missouri may speed the detection of Salmonella in poultry and eggs, generating accurate results in as little as five to 12 hours, compared to as many as five days, the time required by the most common current Salmonella identification methods.
