date:May 27, 2013
Leatherhead Food Research announced the opening of its Pathogen Pilot Plant, also known as DirtyLab, for pathogen challenge testing on conventional and new food products.
The new facility has category II containment capabilities that allow Leatherhead to deliberately contaminate both conventional and new food products with pathogens in order to investigate the fate of such micro-organisms under selected processing conditions. The lab will validate the effectiveness of methods, processes and equ