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Latest blogs
April 2025:
Reinventing Food Safety Testing: Discover the Power of Thermo Scientific Precis Methods
Streamline your food safety testing with Thermo Scientific Precis Methods. Our latest blog explores how Precis Workflows leverage chromogenic media to deliver faster, more reliable results in just two days. Learn how this innovative approach reduces errors, cuts costs, and enhances laboratory efficiency. Discover real-world success stories and the science behind our validated, scalable solutions.
March 2025:
Celebrating World Water Day 2025: Commitment to Quality in Water Testing
Water is at the core of life, health, and sustainability. Each year, World Water Day, celebrated on March 22, reminds us of the importance of safe, accessible water for communities worldwide with themes that speak to the global situation. Established by the United Nations, this global observance highlights the urgent need to address water scarcity, contamination, and sustainable management.
February 2025:
Food for thought: A look at the new EN ISO 7704:2023 - enhancing water testing standards for a safer tomorrow
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has recently published the EN ISO 7704:2023 standard (ISO 7704:2023 - Water quality), a significant update that replaces the previous ISO 7704:1985 widely used in the industry and referred to in other global standards. This new standard outlines the requirements for performance testing of membrane filters used in the retention and direct enumeration of microorganisms by culture media methods. In this article we explore what the updates mean for water testing microbiology laboratories.
November 2024:
Food for thought: Unlocking the future - The benefits of automation in food & beverage microbiology labs
Raul Mesa, Quality and Food Safety Manager at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, recently shared insights with Pierre Barbez from SuperMicrobiologists on the transformative impact of the Thermo Scientific SureTect Automation Workflow (using the CyBio™ FeliX) on the lab's operations following a successful trial.
August 2024:
Food for thought: Advancing food safety with PCR-based Salmonella screening
Ensuring food safety and quality is pivotal in the food industry. Salmonella, a persistent foodborne pathogen, poses a continuous threat to public health and business reputation. Recent advances in Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology are revolutionizing detection and management of this hazard. In this entry of Food for Thought, we discuss why PCR-based Salmonella screening makes economic sense, especially in light of the latest USDA regulation updates.
June 2024:
Food for thought: Keeping Salmonella out of the food chain
Despite our understanding of how Salmonella proliferate in our food manufacturing processes, the bacteria still cause millions of illnesses and hundreds of deaths every year. In this special Spotlight, we take a deep dive into Salmonella, its serotypes and prevalence, and how to keep it out of your facilities, your products, and your customers.
May 2024:
Food for thought: Taking Salmonella prevention back to basics with five lessons from recent outbreaks
We know that food testing laboratories take their responsibility to screen their products for potentially dangerous pathogens seriously. But with so much on the line, from public health to brand reputation, we can never be too careful. That’s why we’re taking you back to basics with our five top tips for Salmonella prevention, based on what we’ve learnt from recent outbreaks.
March 2024:
Food for thought: Why PCR-based Salmonella screening makes the best economic sense
Thanks to its speed and accuracy, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing is changing the face of Salmonella screening. Yet despite its well-documented benefits, many laboratories have been put off by the perception that PCR is expensive to adopt and complex to conduct.
More blogs
How NGS is taking control of herb and spice fraud once and for all
By their very nature, herbs and spices are vulnerable to adulteration, and the problem has only been compounded by the pandemic. But next generation sequencing is giving food manufacturers, retailers, and regulators, the tools they need to finally call time on food fraud.
Latest validation offers food laboratories additional layer of confidence when testing for Salmonella
The SureTect Salmonella Species PCR Assay has been granted AOAC Official Method Analysis (OMA) status.
International interlaboratory study will pioneer the standardization of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in food authenticity testing
Government and industry-leading organizations are among the laboratories signed up to test the accuracy and consistency of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s NGS Food Authenticity Workflow.
Streamlined Salmonella testing drives efficiencies, enables flexibility, and solves problems
Extended validation of the Thermo Scientific Salmonella Precis Method simplifies workflows and encompasses challenging food matrices.A quick and easy culture-based method for detection of Salmonella species has been validated for the broadest range of food, animal feed, and environmental samples, and is ready to slot into standard laboratory workflows.
Thermo Scientific qPCR workflow now validated for detection of SARS-CoV-2 on environmental surfaces
AOAC validated test can help protect staff, brands, business, and public health from COVID-19 with rapid accurate detection of the virus from the environment, including SARS-CoV-2 strain lineage—B.1.1.7 variant.
Faster path to actionable answers for poultry producers
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s test is the first validated multiplex PCR workflow for the most common – and dangerous – Salmonella serotypes offers a multi-target approach that can cuts costs, reduces delays, and increases confidence for poultry and pork producers.
Provide sensitive markets with confidence and brand protection within existing workflows with new, sensitive vegan and Halal food testing assays
Thermo Fisher Scientific has expanded its existing RapidFinder Meat ID Kit range in response to food trends and market conditions.