Abstract: Food-borne pathogen contamination of fresh produce represents a crucial problem in terms of food safety and economic losses. To avoid outbreaks and release of contaminated products in the market, food producers must assure that safety and control measures are followed throughout the production chain. Since traditional methods are complex and time consuming, the use of rapid and reliable methods is needed for a reproducible detection of low pathogen levels prior to packaging. To respond to this need, an indirect ELISA assay was developed to dete...
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Food science
Microbiology
Biotechnology