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From tainted spinach to recalled hamburgers to peanut butter, there seems to be a growing incidence of health scares involving salmonella, E. coli and other food-borne illnesses. Ken Puzey of QuantaSpec, Inc., in Burlington, Vt., describes how his company is making great strides in early detection, and Dr. Jane Hill explains the complex issues of pathogen migration.
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Ken Puzey, founder of QuantaSpec Inc, discusses the problem of food born illnesses, their affect on the U.S. population and how technology helps to detect these pathogens in our food.
Jane Hill, assistant professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Vermont, studies how bacteria gets from one location to another in the food supply system.
• Jane Hill
University of Vermont
• Patsy Kelso
Vermont state epidemiologist
• Catherine Donnelly
University of Vermont
• Paul Kindstedt
University of Vermont
• Ken Puzey
QuantaSpec Inc.
University of Vermont
• Patsy Kelso
Vermont state epidemiologist
• Catherine Donnelly
University of Vermont
• Paul Kindstedt
University of Vermont
• Ken Puzey
QuantaSpec Inc.
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