New tests could slow food bacteria detection

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

WASHINGTON -- New tests that promise to speed up diagnosis of food poisoning pose an unexpected problem: They could make it more difficult to identify dangerous outbreaks, like the one that sickened people who ate a variety of Trader Joe's peanut butter this fall.

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