Segments
Sample Collection & Hygiene Monitoring
Quality Indicator Testing
Pathogen Testing
Miscellaneous
100

FSD USAC’s largest food producing segment

What is dairy?

100

Group: A commonly used Sanitizer that is neutralized by ESS but not by Letheen, NB and DE

What is hydrogen peroxide or peroxyacetic acid?

100

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?

100

Moving parts found in the 3M Molecular Detection System

What is the lid?

100

The meaning of the acronym FSMA

What is Food Safety Modernization Act?

200

Size of 3M’s nutraceutical business

What is $2M-$3M? ($2.7M)

200

4 Sample Collection products that can be used with every PF Plate

What are dilution blanks, pipette tips, swabs or sponges and sample bags?

200

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?

200

The minimum number of primers used by the MDS assays vs the number of primers for PCR

What are 6+ and 2?

200

The year that 3M joined the Food Safety Industry

What is 1984?

300

Growth of 3M CDN's contract lab business As of Oct 12th 2021

What is 11-12%?

300

The amount of ESS technical bulletins available and where you find them

What is 8 TBs, 1 white paper and Teams?

300

This Petrfilm plate designed for a group of gram positive organisms can provide results in 48 hours when incubated at 28 C

What is LAB?

300

The 3 main segments regulated by the USDA

What are meat, poultry and eggs?

300

Type of external certification testing program that can be used to measure a laboratory technician's accuracy or competency

What is proficiency testing?

400

An indicator test for hygiene testing that is not AC for the Fruits & Vegetables

What is EC or EB?

400

Group: The phone number and extensions for Clean-Trace Software Support

What is 1-800-328-6553 ext 3,1,1

400

Group: Compared to agar methods standard Petrifilm products are expected to save this amount of technician time in the laboratory

What is 45%?

400

The meaning of the acronym LAMP

What is loop mediated isothermal amplification?

400

Hallways, Doorways leading into food production areas

What is zone 3?

500

The Petrifilm plate that AOAC PTM approval for the Cannabis industry

What is YM or RYM?

500

Group: 4 competitive luminometers demonstrated both low stability and consistency in the Cardiff study

What are BioControl LIGHTNING MVP ICON™ System, Charm NovaLUM FieldSwab®, Neogen AccuPoint Advanced Access, Neogen AccuPoint Advanced Surface

500

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+%)

500

Group: The 4 MDS assays that have AOAC Official Method of Analysis status

What are Salmonella, Listeria species, Listeria mono and E. coli O157?

500

The pathogen that is responsible for the most deaths in the US annually

What is Salmonella?

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