University of Missouri Professor Shubhra Gangopadhya found a New technology could improve food safety, defend against bio-terrorism. A team headed by Professor Gangopadhya found a way to make food contamination testing more rapid and accurate.
This could could accelerate warnings after bio-terrorism attacks.
"Quickly stopping the spread of toxins saves lives, whether those toxins are from natural processes or enemy attacks” according to, postdoctoral fellow Sangho Bok. "Our technique uses nano-particles to make detection one hundred times more sensitive than the standard method” . "We have also reduced the time needed to detect a threat to only one hour, compared to four to six hours” Bok said the team's current testing of the technology focused on Clostriudium botulinum neurotoxin A, It is the most acutely toxic substance known and it causes food poisoning, but that engineers and biologists at the university are working to adapt the test to detect many other dangerous chemicals.
Many times before a food product can be tested for pathogens the foods have left the farm and are already in your refrigerator. Fast testing could greatly improve our food safety.
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