Market for Food Testing Technologies Set to Explode

$9 billion industry to nearly double to $14 billion by 2018.

August 28, 2013

A recent report from marketing research firm Marketsandmarkets.com projected that the market for food testing and rapid food testing technologies and equipment is set to explode by the year 2018.

Heightened awareness on food safety and the FSMA are fueling the market, and testing for pathogens, toxins and GMOs is becoming big business. To read more, click HERE.

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