Editor’s note: This information was originally posted July 12, 2016, by Sandra Avant, public affairs specialist for USDA’s Agricultural Research Service as part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s blog. As the weather heats up this summer, many of us are firing up our
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USDA Researchers Develop Camera System to Detect Active Shiga Toxin
Scientists at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Western Regional Research Center in Albany, CA, have come up with a less-expensive way to detect biologically active Shiga toxin, a product of pathogenic Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7. 
It is estimated that E. coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 cases of food poisoning and more than
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