A recent study published in the Journal of Food Science found that extracts and isolated compounds from avocado seeds can potentially be used as a natural additive incorporated into ready-to-eat foods to control microbes that cause Listeria
“Farmers have many questions about what the new federal law requires of them, and how that will play out when the law is enforced at the state level," specialist says
The $49.4 million lab, paid for by the state, is named in honor of the lab system’s founding director and professor emeritus Alex A. Ardans, who led the statewide diagnostic service for 21 years
Contamination of foodborne pathogens causes an estimated 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths annually in the United States, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control report in 2011.