PIG SALMONELLA TRACKING

BY MONICA DOBIETHE SPREAD of salmonella in pork may eventually be curtailed because of new research that can track the bacteria in living pigs. Scientists at the USA's Agricultural Research Service's Livestock Behaviour Research Unit have used biophotonics, a new technology that uses light to mark molecular changes, to observe infections in living piglets and adult pig tissue after slaughter.The research will help determine contaminated pigs before they are shipped, especially since certain swine seem prone to shedding salmonella bacteria in manure when stressed ...


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