AIMS Meeting Book_MYM2023

Testing Landscape • Several efforts have been made to develop molecular detection methods for both food and environmental process water • Still several significant knowledge and data gaps that hamper the implementation of effective measures to prevent the contamination of produce with the oocysts of this parasite • These methods have been used almost exclusively for to assist epidemiological investigations and surveys to estimate the prevalence of C. cayetanensis in commodities and growing regions.

• A gap exists in commercially available methodology and reference materials (stable oocysts)

AOAC INTERNATIONAL Midyear Meeting March 13 –17, 2023 | Gaithersburg, MD

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