| Title: | FOOD SAFETY TESTING: U.S. MARKET INDUSTRY STRUCTURE & |
| Price: | $280.00 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 15, 2007 |
| Source: | BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS |
| Brief Excerpt: | ...The U.S. food safety testing industry is fragmented and relatively small. The industry is weighted toward pathogen te sting, as are academic and governmental research. Fewer than ## companies make up the pesticide residue community, and many of them do that in conjunction with their pathogen test activities. Academic institutions are less apt to work alone on pesticide residue test development than they do with pathogens. The marketing of GMO and other contaminant tests appears to be chiefly in the hands of a limited number of commercial test makers. Most companies offer the tests as adjuncts to their more lucrative life sciences and pharmaceutical activities. The tests, ther efore, tend to be part of an array of products offered for a variety of industri es. Exceptions do exist. BioControl Systems, Charm Sciences, and Elisa Tec hnologies, for example, are among the privately held companies that focus spec ifically on food safety testing. Safeguarding the nation s... |
| Length: | 7 Pages |
| Geographic Regions: | NORTH AMERICA, UNITED STATES |
| Industry: | FOOD PROCESSING |
| Format: | 
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