ISPAM Meeting Book

9/17/2015

Sampling and Testing Testing • Target: indicator? pathogen(s) • Sensitivity: direct, enrichment, PCR • Acceptable false positive/negative rates Sampling • In field or harvested? • How many samples to collect? • Which samples to collect? • Acceptable statistical confidence?

Working Group Participants Laboratory/Consulting • Aegis Food Testing Lab • Brooke Schwartz Consulting Non-produce Industry • 3M • Bayer Crop Science • Instant laboratories • Q Laboratories • McDonald's Produce Industry

• Silliker, BioMerieux • The Acheson Group Government • CFIA D t h I t t • u c nspec ora e • FDA Academia • U of California Davis • U of Maryland

• Chiquita/Fresh Express • Church Brothers Produce • Dole Fresh Vegetable • Earthbound Farm N t i F • a ur pe arms

• Ready Pac • Taylor Farms • United Fresh

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