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Culture-based methods, such as plating, are considered by some to be the “gold standard” of microbial safety testing. After all, the method is used extensively in the food industry and is [...]

Stories of angry hemp farmers who discovered a high percentage of male plants in their hemp fields are becoming more frequent in the news.  Most recently, a Kentucky-based hemp farmer filed [...]

One of the common objections to using qPCR for microbial testing is the fact that the method does not distinguish between live and dead DNA. PCR primers and probes will amplify any DNA in the [...]