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Fish and Chips

Lab-on-a-chip technology is one tool for fighting seafood substitution

Michigan Turkey Producers Wins Food Quality Award

Investments improved quality, nearly eliminated pathogen growth

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Toxicologial Safety of Irradiated Foods

This article is excerpted from a chapter in “Food Irradiation Research and Technology,” which was edited by Christopher H. Sommers, PhD, and Xuetong Fan, PhD. The book was published in 2006 by Wiley-Blackwell, which also publishes Food Quality magazine.

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CDC Lists Food Pathogens for 2007

Of the 734 foodborne disease outbreaks with known etiologies in 2007, Norovirus and Salmonella accounted for the lion’s share of reports, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reported in the Aug. 13 edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) .

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Novel Mechanism Found to Affect Salmonella Virulence

Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered a mechanism that may explain part of the organism’s ability to respond to inhospitable conditions. By selectively altering its production of proteins in a manner not previously recognized, Salmonella can change both its susceptibility to antibiotics and its level of virulence.

Some Gulf Waters Reopening to Commercial Fishing

Certain waters in the Gulf of Mexico are being reopened to commercial fishing after the cleanup and control of the oil spill resulting from the April explosion on British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling rig.

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One of the biggest challenges in ensuring the safety of our food supplies is the measurement of hazardous, ultra trace level components in the presence of a highly complex sample matrix. For the analysis of pesticides in food matrices the increased use of liquid chromatography systems, coupled with tandem quadrupole mass spectrometers have allowed progress in reducing the problems caused by the sample matrix. This webinar will focus on an integrated workflow for multi-residue pesticide analysis in complex...

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