FDA Taps Life Technologies to Develop Food Safety Tests

Life hired to develop rapid detection tests to spot deadly E. coli and Salmonella bacteria

Jul 31, 2013
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

California-based Life Technologies has signed a five-year agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to develop food safety technologies. To read more, click HERE.

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