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Food Safety Challenge winners announced

Winners of FDA’s 2014 Food Safety Challenge developed innovative technologies to detect Salmonella in food.

Jeremy Gerrard

July 28, 2015

Purdue University took the grand prize, while Pronucleotein Inc. was the runner-up.

Food safety testing market worth $15 billion by 2019

Jeremy Gerrard

July 2, 2015

The food safety testing market is projected to reach $15.04 billion and a volume of 1.16 billion tests by 2019, according to market researcher MarketsandMarkets.

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IAQ testing unit

June 23, 2015

The E Instruments AQ Expert indoor testing unit offers up to 11 parameters, an active internal sampling pump, dual-temperature TcK inputs, PC software and a USB.

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Sample taking valve

May 18, 2015

The FAMAT sample taking valve can take materials such as powders, pastes, slurries and liquids from a process vessel/tank or pipe while the process operates under pressure or vacuum.

Food Safety

Reducing risk with rapid detection

Debra Schug

May 12, 2015

When harmful bacteria are found in food products, things can quickly spin out of control for processors.

Research project improves Salmonella detection in processing

Jeremy Gerrard

April 23, 2015

Researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a rapid detection assay for Salmonella that can be used in poultry processing plants, reducing testing cost and time compared to some current methods, according to USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation which funded the research.

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Moisture analyzer

April 16, 2015

The Alliance-Ohaus MB-Series moisture analyzer utilizes an infrared halogen heating element with a gold reflective housing that reaches 200°C within seconds to dry samples.

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Digital viscometer

April 14, 2015

The Brookfield DV1 continuous sensing digital viscometer offers multiple language choices and a user interface with 3 hot keys for spindle selection, test speed and other functions.

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Bread volume analyzer

April 14, 2015

The Perten BVM laser topography-based bread volume analyzer is suitable for samples with volumes from 200 to 2,800mL.

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Moisture meter

April 7, 2015

Able to measure the water content of samples to a standard regardless of ambient conditions, the Decagon TrueDry CV-9 moisture meter dries samples by passing heated, desiccated air over each of them until achieving a uniform value of 1% relative humidity.