date:Aug 14, 2018
The threat of E. coli has prompted a Grand Valley State University researcher to find the bacteria in food before it hits the market for consumption.
Kevin Strychar, an ecological researcher at the universitys Annis Water Resources Institute in Muskegon, was awarded a $96,007 grant from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to test the use of an imaging flow cytometer to discover E. coli contamination in food as it is brought from harvest.
The imaging flow cytometer has