Food Safety Magazine, August/September 2011

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AIV Microbiology & Food Safety Consultants Offers Accredited International HACCP Alliance Training Courses

AIV Microbiology & Food Safety
Consultants Inc., a provider of food
safety manage-
ment and techni-
cal solutions to
food industry and
government customers worldwide, has
announced its accreditation to the Inter-
national Hazard Analysis and Critical
Control Points (HACCP) Alliance stan-
dards for HACCP training.

The International HACCP Alliance was developed in 1994 to provide a uniform program to ensure safer meat and poultry products and since has expanded to include all food categories. Housed in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University, the International HACCP Alliance accredits training providers to exacting standards in HACCP course curricula.

tagged protein is then analyzed via a colorimetric technique and the results displayed as a percentage of protein.

LABVANTAGE to Provide Comprehensive Data Integration Solutions to Laboratories

LABVANTAGE has announced an alliance with expressor software to provide state-of-the-art data integration solutions

to establish an integrated informatics infrastructure for the laboratory. The informatics data integration software is fast and easy to use. Its active metadata foundation simplifies data mapping and transformation, thereby dramatically lowering cost. Together with expressor, LABVANTAGE brings affordable, enter-prise-class data integration and migration solutions to the laboratory.

AOAC Approves Method Used by CEM Sprint Protein Analyzer

CEM Corporation, a global provider of laboratory instrumentation, has announced that

AOAC INTERNATIONAL has approved Official Method 2011.04, a protein-tagging and colorimetric technique for the determination of protein content in raw and processed meat and meat products of beef, pork and poultry.

CEM Corporation’s Sprint Rapid Protein Analyzer was used in the collaborative study conducted as part of the approval process for this method. The study included beef, pork and poultry products (raw and processed) with a range of 9%–40% protein. The Sprint utilizes i TAG, a proprietary, nontoxic protein-tagging solution that binds to the lysine, histidine and arginine, as well as the n-terminus, of proteins commonly found in raw and processed meat. The

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