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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
ABSTRACT:
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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