Celebrating the 7th annual Food Quality Award are Marcos Cantharino, director DuPont Qualicon global sales & marketing; Craig Binetti, president DuPont Nutrition & Health; Mike DeSmet, West Liberty Foods vice-president food safety & quality;  Paul Hall, West Liberty Foods chairman of the board; LeAnn Smith, West Liberty Foods senior manager of regulatory and customer compliance; and Rick Biros, founder of Food Quality magazine.

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Reverse-transcriptase PCR allows food companies to use the BAX® system for detecting Listeria on environmental surfaces in just eight hours.  

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Kevin Huttman, DuPont Qualicon, and Lu Yong, Beijing Municipal Center for Food Safety Monitoring, agree to use the BAX® system for Beijing food safety supervision tasks in 2008.

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This real-time PCR assay, developed in alliance with Applied Biosystems, is the latest addition to the award-winning BAX® system line of genetic-based diagnostic solutions for the food industry

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Celebrating the 6th annual Food Quality award to Hormel Foods are Rick Biros, publisher of Food Quality magazine; William F. Snyder, senior VP of supply chain at Hormel Foods; Ravi Ramadhar, director of new business at DuPont Qualicon; Bryan Farnsworth, VP of quality management at Hormel Foods; and Kevin Huttman, president of DuPont Qualicon.

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DuPont™ StatMedia™ soluble packets are unit-dose, gamma-irradiated packets of nutrient powder wrapped in water-soluble film for fast, easy and flexible enrichment broth preparation.

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The BAX® System Q7 incorporates innovative PCR technology to offer advanced DNA-based detection for food safety and quality testing.

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Speed, accuracy and ease of use make the BAX® system a powerful part of quality control processes in the food industry.

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Tableted PCR reagents make the BAX® detection system easy, quick and cost-effective.

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A winning combination for the food industry -- The BAX® system for reliable detection of bacteria and the RiboPrinter® system for identification of serotypes, with discrimination at the strain level.

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The automated RiboPrinter® system identifies and characterizes bacteria through genetic "fingerprinting."

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The RiboPrinter®' system enables efficient and consistent identification of bacteria with powerful characterization for discrimination at the strain level.

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The DuPont™ Lateral Flow System™ provides presumptive results on antibody-coated test strips.

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Winners Neal Apple and Vanessa Cook from Tyson Food Safety and Laboratory Service Network, and Shane Sampels from SYSCO Corporation are presented the 2005 Food Quality Award by Rick Biros, publisher of Food Quality magazine and Kevin Huttman, president of DuPont Qualicon.

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Eldon Roth (center), CEO of Beef Products, Inc. accepts 4th Annual Food Quality award from Food Quality Magazine publisher Rick Biros and DuPont Qualicon president Kevin Huttman.

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In 2002, Kevin Huttman became president of DuPont Qualicon.

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