Handheld sensor detects pathogens within 10 minutes
02/02/2006 - A handheld sensor could help food companies quickly detect within 10 minutes whether their
products are laden with Escherichia coli or listeria -- before they are shipped out of the plant. Industry news shows that there is an Increasing regulatory emphasis on food safety in plants and the cost of recalls has spurred food companies to seek faster ways of detecting pathogens.
Raj Mutharasan, an engineer at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has developed what he says is a cheap, quick and simple detector that just about anyone can use.