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FDA challenge seeks new technologies to fight foodborne illness

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food — especially salmonella in fresh produce.

The 2014 FDA Food Safety Challenge was developed under the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which grants all federal agencies broad authority to conduct prize competitions to spur innovation, solve tough problems, and advance their core missions. This challenge offers a total prize pool of $500,000.

Concepts must be able specifically to address the detection of salmonella in minimally processed fresh produce, but the ability of a solution to address. . .

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