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NIR news
Volume 18 Issue 8, Pages 4–7 (2007)
doi: 10.1255/nirn.1051

Near infrared chemical imaging for high throughput screening of food bacteria

Janie Dubois,a E. Neil Lewis,a Frederick S. Fry Jrb and Elizabeth M. Calveyb
aMalvern Instruments Ltd, 7221 Lee Deforest Drive, Suite 300, Columbia, MD 21046, USA
bFood and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Assuring food safety is an ongoing endeavour in the food industry and there is a need for fast, reliable tools to screen for pathogens from both naturally-occurring and intentional contamination. This article discusses near infrared chemical imaging as a tool for high throughput screening of food bacteria.

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