Clear Labs, Menlo Park, Calif., close $21 million in funding Series B2 to ramp up commercial operations and build new features for Clear Safety, what is said to be the world’s only automated NGS platform for routine pathogen testing.

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.

Sample6, Cambridge, Mass., initiated a multi-center collaborative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and Winchester Engineering Analytical Center (WEAC) to test Sample6’s bacteriophage-powered, state-of-the-art, in-shift Listeria pathogen testing detection system.

The North American food safety testing market is projected to be worth $5,460 million by 2018.