Segments
FSD USAC’s largest food producing segment
What is dairy?
Group: A commonly used Sanitizer that is neutralized by ESS but not by Letheen, NB and DE
What is hydrogen peroxide or peroxyacetic acid?
This competitor of Petrifilm touts a fully automated solution, rapid results, no dilutions beyond sample prep, and utilizes disposable cards for each sample.
What is Tempo?
Industry that typically tests for Cronobacter
The meaning of the acronym FSMA
What is Food Safety Modernization Act?
Size of 3M’s nutraceutical business
What is $2M-$3M? ($2.7M)
4 Sample Collection products that can be used with every PF Plate
What are dilution blanks, pipette tips, swabs or sponges and sample bags?
Group: In differentiating a yeast from a mold on Petrifilm RYM, a mold would have one or more of these four characteristics
What is larger colony, a foci, diffuse edge, flat colony?
Moving parts found in the 3M Molecular Detection System
What is the lid?
The year that 3M joined the Food Safety Industry
What is 1984?
Growth of 3M CDN's contract lab business As of Oct 12th 2021
What is 11-12%?
The amount of ESS technical bulletins available and where you find them
What is 8 TBs, 1 white paper and Teams?
I am a great tool for your environmental monitoring program allowing you to survey for pathogens without enrichment
What is PEL?
The 3 main segments regulated by the USDA
What are meat, poultry and eggs?
Type of external certification testing program that can be used to measure a laboratory technician's accuracy or competency
What is proficiency testing?
The Mars company acquired this maker of “healthy” snack bars
What is Kind?
Group: The AOAC certificate number for the ESS AOAC PTM
What is 022104?
Group: Compared to agar methods standard Petrifilm products are expected to save this amount of technician time in the laboratory
What is 45%?
The meaning of the acronym LAMP
What is loop mediated isothermal amplification?
Hallways, Doorways leading into food production areas
What is zone 3?
The Petrifilm plate that AOAC PTM approval for the Cannabis industry
What is YM or RYM?
Group: 5 sanitizers that were tested with the ESS for buffering capacity and neutralizing capabilities
What are Bleach, Vortexx™, Tsunami™ 100, StarSan, Whisper™ V?
Group: Compared to the TPC agar method Petrifilm Aerobic plate count can reduce the method coefficient in variation by this percent
What is 50%? (CV 10% vs CV 15+%)
Group: The 4 MDS assays that have AOAC Official Method of Analysis status
What are Salmonella, Listeria species, Listeria mono and E. coli O157?
The supplier that currently has the USDA contract for E. coli and STEC testing
What is BioRad?