The holy grail of food safety is the ability to rapidly detect pathogens on and in food commodities; ideally using non-invasive technologies such as biosensors.  While no such technology currently exists, researchers from government, academia and private industry laboratories are aggressively exploiting emerging molecular-genomic technologies to develop methods that allow the detection and identification of microbial pathogens on foods.  This symposium will focus on six independent molecular-genomic technologies that are currently being used and/or developed for this critical aspect of food safety.

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