FoodChain ID, a Fairfield, Va.-based portfolio company of Paine Schwartz Partners, LLC, acquired Diversified Laboratories, LLC, Chantilly, Va., to create what is said to be the most comprehensive contaminants testing solutions offerings.

Food Safety Net Services (FSNS), San Antonio, Texas, opened a leading-edge analytical testing laboratory for the food and consumables industry.

SGS opened a new food microbiological testing laboratory at its Fairfield, N.J., headquarters location.

STAR-K Kosher Certification, Baltimore, Md., partnered with Registrar Corp., Hampton, Va., where Registrar’s clients can explore Kosher certification and existent STAR-K Kosher-certified clients in need of FDA registration.

Environmental sampling is increasingly considered an essential part of any comprehensive food safety program, but building a program and achieving consensus internally is easier said than done.

CAS DataLoggers, Chesterland, Ohio, provided the automated food safety monitoring solution for Longhini Sausage Co. Inc., a New Haven, Conn.-based sausage processor.

3M Food Safety, St. Paul, Minn., introduced two assays that can detect the genes associated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC).

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., received $10 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, D.C., to establish what is said to be the first-ever Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL).

Ecolab Inc., St. Paul, Minn., launched the Food Safety Culture Assessment, an innovative and tested tool to help measure and advance food safety behaviors and the overall food safety culture within food retail organizations.

In this study, researchers collected and analyzed 339,548 records of food temperatures from corporate catering foodservice operations to identify different scenarios and possible factors predictive of Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes growth.