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Recent food recalls in the United States and Europe is putting more pressure on processors to test more frequently, thus driving demand for food safety diagnostic products and commercial laboratory services over the next five years, according to a study produced by Strategic Consulting, Inc., Baltimore, Md.

Clear Labs, Menlo Park, Calif., unveiled Clear Safety, what is said to be the first end-to-end NGS-based food safety platform for high-volume routine pathogen testing.

Increasing cases of foodborne illnesses due to food contamination and rising consumer inclination toward better quality and safe food are expected to fuel the demand for pathogen testing in the global food safety testing market by the end of forecast period, according to a report published by Allied Market Research, Portland, Ore.

CERTUS, Salt Lake City, Utah, revealed that its in-house pathogen testing system now delivers swab-to-result in as little as eight hours.

3M Food Safety, St. Paul, Minn., announced its new 3M Molecular Detection Assay 2 – Campylobacter with 3M Campylobacter Enrichment Broth.

Chicago-based CERTUS launched the CERTUS System for rapid pathogen detection and environmental monitoring.

Texas Tech University’s International Center for Food Industry Excellence (ICFIE), Lubbock, Texas, was selected as a National Surveillance Lab for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Retail Meat Surveillance Program through a competitive federal grant process.

MOCON, Inc., Minneapolis, partnered with Cherney Microbiological Services Ltd., Green Bay, Wis., to help food processors determine why product spoilage issues exist.