Every food company wants a pathogen detection method that is fast, reliable and easy to use. The quality control labs understand that PCR-based testing systems offer advanced science, with results that are faster than culture and more accurate than antibodies. But how are they to know which PCR system is best? For one company, the choice was easy.

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When Salmonella shows up in the plant, food companies need accurate testing

methods to verify that their interventions are working.

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Reducing false positives is critical for processed meat producer. BAX® system distinguishes true from false results.

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Enterobacter sakazakii has no place in a product as important as infant formula: RiboPrinter® system finds the route and source of contamination.

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Drug developers can't leave identification of potentially lethal organisms to chance: Enterobacter cloacae discovered in formula for asthma inhaler.

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Product quality's hidden opponents might be easier to beat than ever before: Bacillus in dry powder tracked with the RiboPrinter® system.

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What's in a name? Unless it has been assigned by reproducible, definitive DNA typing, the organism might have the wrong name tag. Study shows variability of biochemical results between labs and confirms reproducibility of the RiboPrinter® system.

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Shades of a mystery organism: Appearance can fool a lab, but genetic fingerprints won't. Pharmaceutical company finds "pink" organisms in both raw material and finished product, but they don't have the same RiboPrint® pattern.

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