Industry News

August 1, 2011

The July-August 2011 issue of Evidence Technology highlighted the M-Vac technology in the article "The Microbial-Vac System: Advancing Human Identification by Improved Sampling"

January 9, 2011
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safety, announces "USDA's vision to make our food safety system stronger, smarter, better equipped to meet the demands of the 21st century."

January 5, 2011
President Obama signs the long-awaited FDA Food Safety Modernization Act into law.

December 1, 2010
For the first time, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a directive for its inspectors on testing and recalling beef contaminated with E. coli O26.

December 29, 2009
The Christmas Eve recall of almost 250,000 pounds of mechanically tenderized steak products is now linked to 19 E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in 16 states and to three restaurant chains.

October 9, 2009
Eating a hamburger should not be a death-defying experience. Too often it is. As Michael Moss wrote in The Times recently, E. coli sickens thousands of people annually, including a young dance teacher named Stephanie Smith, who was paralyzed after eating a contaminated hamburger. Read More

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The Obama Administration today announced several steps to improve the safety of the nation's food supply including reducing the threat of E. coli O157:H7 through stepped up enforcement in beef facilities, cutting Salmonella risk in poultry products and building a national traceback and response system to track the sources of illnesses.

June 28, 2009
JBS Swift Beef Co. recalled 380,000 pounds of the meat earlier this week after at least 12 people have been hospitalized in connection with a possible E.coli outbreak in beef.

May 28, 2009
The nation's complex food supply chain would become more transparent, inspections of food facilities would become more frequent and manufacturers would be required to take steps aimed at preventing food-borne illnesses under legislation proposed yesterday by key House leaders who have pledged to modernize the food safety system.