Pathogen detection in food: finding the needle in a haystack

This publication investigates the sampling and testing for pathogens in food.

For pathogens, often absence testing is required in one or in several samples of 25 grams of food; hence the test procedure should be able to
detect extremely low concentrations of cells.

To date, direct detection of these low levels of contaminants is not possible, and adequate detection relies on an enrichment step to increase cell concentrations to detectable levels.

Find more about this publication here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cofs.2025.101332