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Seek and destroy: The importance of environmental monitoring for meat and poultry

The food industry continues to move toward a preventive, proactive approach to food safety. Testing for pathogens in food processing environments allows food manufacturers to identify and eliminate environmental pathogen sources, helping to reduce the risk of food contamination, recalls, and foodborne illness. Pathogen environmental monitoring (PEM) programs are typically used to verify sanitation measures, … Continue reading “Seek and destroy: The importance of environmental monitoring for meat and poultry”

Testing for indicator organisms and pathogens

Eating fads continue to come and go, and some of those trends bring new safety challenges for the food industry. Locally-sourced food – including gardens inside restaurants — raw smoothies, and peoples’ undying love of cookie dough have led to the consumption of unsafe food. Testing for indicator organisms and pathogens in an environmental monitoring … Continue reading “Testing for indicator organisms and pathogens”

From PCR to LAMP: The evolution of rapid-testing in food safety

Want your work tasks to be simpler and faster? The answer for most of us is, yes! Food manufacturers want to move food from the plant to the shelf as quickly as possible. When testing for pathogens, getting an answer quickly can help get your products to the shelf faster. Culture-based tests or rapid methods … Continue reading “From PCR to LAMP: The evolution of rapid-testing in food safety”

Why you should test low-moisture foods

Does honey have an endless shelf life? In the right conditions, it can last indefinitely. When 3,000-year-old honey was found in a tomb in Egypt, scientists determined that it was still edible. Honey’s unique chemical make-up – its acidity, low amounts of water and the presence of hydrogen peroxide – helps it stay pristine and … Continue reading “Why you should test low-moisture foods”

Unique technologies power new food safety testing system

Fast, easy, accurate. What qualities do you want in a new work tool? Speed, simplicity, efficiency, accuracy? That’s what food safety professionals said they were looking for when testing for pathogens. So, 3M scientists set out to create a new testing system that met those needs. The result? The 3M™ Molecular Detection System – a … Continue reading “Unique technologies power new food safety testing system”

IAFP 2018 Summary

This July, the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) hosted its Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Over 3,600 “top industry, academic and governmental food safety professionals from six continents” attended the week-long event to discuss topics ranging from Food Hygiene to Vital and Parasitic Foodborne Diseases. Seminars: 3M Food Safety was proud to … Continue reading “IAFP 2018 Summary”

USDA FSIS Chooses 3M

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Chooses 3M for Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes Testing. 3M Food Safety is honored to announce that following rigorous performance evaluations against other commercially available rapid methods, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS) has chosen 3M™ Molecular Detection System as the primary method to be … Continue reading “USDA FSIS Chooses 3M”