Applied Biosystems now provides pathogen detection kits directly to food companies and food testing laboratories for surveillance and analysis of food products. The kits quickly and
accurately detect contamination and enable food companies to take timely action to prevent outbreaks of food-borne illness and avoid costly recalls of products. Among Applied Biosystems’ pathogen detection solutions is the TaqMan Salmonella enterica Detection Kit, which detects and identifies a wide range of Salmonella strains. The Salmonella detection kit is real-time PCR-based, and optimised for use with Applied Biosystems’ real-time PCR instrument systems to yield results in less than 24 hours, significantly faster than alternative methods which can take up to five days.