date:Jun 14, 2012
The letter from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said it approved the DuPont Qualicon BAX STEC suite testing kit and recognized the challenges faced in conducting robust validation studies for STEC detection methodologies.
The FSIS reviewed the data provided through a DuPont submission and compared it to the current USDA MLG 5B.01 method for the detection of Shiga toxin-producing strains of E.coli (STEC).
They determined that there is a basis fo