What is Salmonella Food Poisoning? – Preventing food poisoning before export food products
What is Salmonella Food Poisoning? – Seafood is one of the food products that contains essential nutrients that are beneficial to our bodies, but spoiled seafood can bring risk to consumers. The presence of pathogenic bacteria that contaminate the fishery and food products can damage the nutritional content in these products. It can actually cause […]
Cross Contamination of Seafood – How to Prevent Cross Contamination of Seafood
Cross contamination of seafood – Like other food products, seafood also contains bacteria and viruses that cause diseases. Microorganism that causes diseases can come from a variety of conditions including the environment, water contamination or cross contamination. There are many causes of contamination in seafood such as when shipping the food processing equipment, dismantling & […]
The Importance of Food Laboratory in Food Industry
The Importance of Food Laboratory – Food safety is an important factor that must be considered. Food manufacturers must pay attention to the food safety of their products. This effort is to ensure the safety of customers & potential consumers. Food poisoning cases that occurred can be lessons for manufacturers to improve the wholesomeness of […]
Salmonella detection with PCR – Detection of Salmonella in seafood sample by Real Time PCR Method
Salmonella detection with PCR
Food microbiology testing service – Detection pathogen contamination in your food product
Food microbiology testing service – Microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi or viruses can contaminate food at any time. It could pose a risk to consumers. It is important for food producers or consumers to monitor for harmful organisms in their food products. Microorganisms are small creatures, so it is difficult for us to see them […]
Seafood Safety Overview – Understand potential risks and ways to reduce seafood safety problems
Seafood safety overview – Seafood is the kind of food that has a potential risk of bacterial contamination, toxins and chemical contamination. According to Seafood Safety Most of the current health risks associated with seafood safety come from the environment and it must be addressed with control. Seafood Safety Overview ( Understand the potensial risk […]
Veratox Histamine – Early histamine detection for fish export
Veratox Histamine – One of the defining qualities in the food industry, especially fish, is the content of histamine. As we already know, histamine is a toxic chemical. Fish that are not fresh in quality will cause histamine levels to rise. The higher the damage to the fish, the more histamine is forming. So, it […]
Types of cross contamination – What is cross contamination of food ?
Types of cross contamination – Cross contamination is the transfer of bacteria or microorganisms from one substance to another. Other types of cross contamination include transfer of food allergens, chemicals, or toxins. According to WHO, an estimated 600 million people fall ill and 420,000 people die each year after consuming contaminated food. Cross contamination is […]
PCR test for food testing – Real time pathogen detection for food product
PCR test for food testing – Are you a food exporter? If you are, there are several problems that you should pay attention to as those problems could hinder your export activity. In the food industry, it is quite easy for foods to be contaminated with dangerous pathogenic bacteria. Before exporting food to the destination […]
Why Histamine can fail your fish export business
Histamine in tuna export – Histamine in fish is one of the problems in the tuna/ fish industry. It is an issue to both local & export market. Tuna is a species of Scombridae. Scombrids have two dorsal fins and a series of finlets behind the rear dorsal fin and anal fin. They are generally predators in open […]