Thermo Fisher Opens Lab to Test Food Safety Threats Involving Chemical Contaminants

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA) says it has opened a global food testing laboratory at Dreieich, Germany, to help contain costly and life-threatening chemical contamination crises. The Food Safety Response Center will aid governments and businesses facing an unknown food safety threat involving chemical contaminants. This follows the recent melamine crisis in China, which claimed the lives of six children, sickened nearly 300,000 and cost companies worldwide billions before it was contained, Thermo Fisher says. “"Identification and containment...

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