Food-borne Illness

Lab results delivered in minutes, not days

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 9th, 2002

The era of waiting days for E. coli bacteria lab results soon will be at an end for food processors and health departments, thanks to a new type of biological sensor that works much like a home-pregnancy test in one format.

At present, it takes technicians days to incubate and then implicate harmful and deadly bacteria in food poisonings, but the new sensor does its detective work in just minutes.

The sensor, which employs liposomes, artificial microscopic, cell-like structures, has been developed at Cornell University's department of food science and technology. Field tests at Cornell have rapidly detected traces of Escherichia coli...

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