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Cow-free proteins signal possible new day for dairy

By Cookson Beecher on February 21, 2022

No cows needed for this milk. But we’re not taking about products such as almond milk or soy milk. We’re talking about actual milk complete with dairy proteins. But not a cow in sight.

How…
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Letter From the Editor: Mansour to the Rescue

By Dan Flynn on December 6, 2015

With its stock price in the toilet, its fourth-quarter earnings dwindling, and more of its customers becoming outbreak victims, Chipotle Mexican Grill decided last week was a good time to announce a new food safety…
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Letter From the Editor: Ban Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Dihydrogen Monoxide?

By Dan Flynn on May 10, 2015

The former USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety, Dr. Richard Raymond, lives just down the road a piece. He’s always good for pointing out something we’ve missed, or setting us straight, or both. He recently called…
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Whole-Genome Technology Solving More Outbreak Investigations

By James Andrews on December 16, 2014

A common disclaimer supplied by public health officials while in the midst of a foodborne illness outbreak investigation goes something like this: “We’re doing our best to find the food source of the outbreak, but…
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DNA Spray-On Technology Could Revolutionize Food Traceability

By James Andrews on November 17, 2014

It sounds like something straight out of agricultural science fiction: a liquid solution containing unique bits of DNA that gets sprayed on foods in order to easily identify information about where it came from and…
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Global Microbe Genome Database Represents ‘Some Exciting Science’

By James Andrews on August 8, 2014

If the world’s food safety scientists act now, they have the opportunity to create a global network of microbial data that will dramatically improve the ability to track and combat disease outbreaks of all sorts,…
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3M Salmonella Detection Gains Worldwide Certification

By News Desk on March 6, 2013

A Salmonella detection technique developed by Minnesota-based conglomerate 3M has been determined to be as effective or more effective than standard methods of detecting Salmonella in seafood and vegetable products, and in environmental samples taken…
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Infographic Shows Horsemeat Stats, Scandal Timeline

By Dan Flynn on February 27, 2013

Agricultural ministers meeting in Brussels this week agreed that criminal activity stretching across the European continent is behind the horsemeat scandal.   In response, they’ve called for still more DNA testing of the continent’s meat…
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European Union Will Test Beef in 27 Countries for Horsemeat

By News Desk on February 14, 2013

After a meeting with health ministers from European Union nations, EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg gained support for DNA testing of meat products throughout the continent. “The tests will be on DNA in meat products…
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Is U.S. Beef Safe From Europe's Expanding Horsemeat Crisis?

By Dan Flynn on February 11, 2013

Are escalating beef prices tempting suppliers worldwide to substitute horsemeat for beef or do only a few European criminals engage in the practice? Only the kind of DNA testing Ireland used to discover the problem…
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