3M Food Safety, St. Paul, Minn., launched 3M Petrifilm Salmonella Express System, a new pathogen detection technology that builds upon a solid platform of pathogen detection solutions.  

The use of container sanitizing equipment ensures that pathogens and other contaminants won’t get into the processing plant, where it can taint finished food products, tarnish brand names and even instigate recalls and litigation.

The database provides a roadmap for development of tests to identify pathogens and provide information about the origin of each pathogen, significantly reducing the typical public health response time in outbreaks of foodborne illness from weeks to days.