food safety
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Allergen Testing and the May Contain Label Problem
A may contain warning is not a test result. In most places it is a voluntary sentence a manufacturer chose to print, with no required measurement…
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Food Pathogen Testing From Enrichment to Confirmation
A food pathogen test takes days rather than hours because the laboratory must first persuade a handful of injured bacteria to multiply into billions.
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Mycotoxins: The Fungal Contaminants in Everyday Foods
Mycotoxin contamination is wildly uneven within a shipment, which makes drawing the sample harder and more error-prone than analysing it.
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Pesticide Residue Testing: How Produce Gets Screened
A residue detection and a residue problem are not the same finding, and the gap between them is where most pesticide headlines are made.
