FDA 2014 Food Safety Challenge

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FDA 2014 Food Safety Challenge Deadline: 2014-11-09
Award: $500,000 total prize pool

The FDA is calling on America’s innovators to submit concepts applying cutting-edge techniques to achieve revolutionary improvements in the speed of the FDA’s detection methods for Salmonella in produce.

The 2014 FDA Food Safety Challenge is a call to scientists, academics, entrepreneurs, and innovators from all disciplines to submit concepts applying novel and/or advanced methodologies to foster revolutionary improvements in foodborne pathogen detection.

Specifically, concepts should apply cutting-edge techniques to achieve significant improvements in the speed of the FDA’s detection methods for Salmonella with identification to the subtype/serovar level in minimally processed fresh produce. FDA is most interested in concepts that explore the acceleration or elimination of sample preparation and/or enrichment in the testing process, and/or those that employ novel or revolutionary techniques to achieve pathogen detection.


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