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MIT Scientists Develop Food Sensor That Can Detect Spoiled or Contaminated Food

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MIT engineers have designed a food sensor , made from an array of silk microneedles, that can pierce through the plastic packaging of foods to sample for bacterial contamination and spoilage. The Velco-like device pierces the packaging and the food via silk microneedles that suck in material through capillary action.

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6 Reasons Why Aluminum is The Perfect Material for Food Packaging

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Aluminum is a popular choice for food packaging because of its superior recyclability and unique properties for product brands over other materials like plastics and glass – it is endlessly recyclable compared to plastic and paper, while being lighter and studier than glass. Availability. Environmental Sustainability. Versatility.

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How Common Is Salmonella in Chicken? New USDA Regulations Target Frozen Products

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Foundation for a Broader Regulatory Framework: This rule covering a specific category of poultry products lays the groundwork for a broader regulatory approach, currently being developed, that treats Salmonella as an adulterant to enhance public health. Other food products can also be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Cold Chain Packaging – Current Scenario and Future Potential

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Cold chain is a three-fold concept, involving certain aspects that can be co-related to science, technology, and process development. Further, the cold chain storage process involves the cold chain storage, cold chain transportation, and monitoring temperature controlled packaging products.

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CMO Moves: Regulatory catalysts for drug manufacturing-April

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical companies regularly outsource different steps of drug manufacturing processes like parenteral manufacturing and packaging, solid dose, and small molecule or biologic active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production, among others. Several companies have been charged with manufacturing different components of J&J’s vaccine.

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New Food Safety Testing Tool Can Detect Multiple Foodborne Illness-Causing Pathogens

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The ability to rapidly test and detect these pathogens on food and processing equipment allows for immediate intervention and remediation that can reduce widespread contamination that results in loss of product, foodborne illness and subsequent devastating economic impact to the food producers associated with product recalls.”.

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Federal Officials Report of HelloFresh E. Coli Outbreak

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plastic vacuum-packed packages containing ‘GROUND BEEF 85% LEAN/15% FAT’ with codes ‘EST#46841 L1 22 155’ or ‘EST#46841 L5 22 155’ on the side of the packaging.”. “The meal kits containing ground beef for this public health alert were shipped to consumers from July 2-21, 2022,” the FSIS stated in a public health alert. While most E.