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  • January 15th 2016 Issue
  • Story by Shannon Dininny
  • Learning to fight Listeria

    After years of experience in meat and dairy industries, food safety experts bring help to tree fruit industry.

    [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Kathleen Glass started working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Food Research Institute 30 years ago, studying various microbes — primarily those turning up in the meat and dairy industries — and assisting with food safety investigations. She added her first fruit case last year with a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak in caramel apples. Now, Glass and other researchers are working to better understand the needs of the tree fruit industry in order to help growers, packers and […]

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