The Center for Food Safety Engineering (CFSE) at Purdue University celebrates our ninth year of partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC). Our collaborative efforts continue to advance the detection and control of food-borne pathogens and chemical hazards. This year, the CFSE team generated 25 peer-reviewed research publications and presented 15 talks at national science meetings.
This research report features results and progress from a number of projects. Our multi-disciplinary approach involves development of new technologies to improve detection of bacterial pathogens including Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Campylobacter spp., and Salmonella spp. Engineers and food scientists are working together on food sample handling; biological target separation and concentration; and different detection platform systems including biosensor development, optical biosensors, cell-based biosensors, microarrays, infrared spectroscopy (including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy), enzyme-linked immunosorbant assays, polymerase chain reactions, impedance-based microbiology, scanning microscopy, confocal raman microscopy, bioluminescence, DNA/RNA probes, and bioreporter-based chemical sensors. » Read More...
