The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Genome Canada, and Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions are funding an 18-month, C$600,000 ($594,000) initiative to map the Listeria genome, in an effort to enable the development of rapid detection methods, Food Safety News reports. "Currently, it takes at least five days to confirm the presence of Listeria," Food Safety News adds. "Genomic mapping could improve accuracy and cut the time it takes for both the government and industry to identify Listeria contamination."
Daily Scan's publication GenomeWeb Daily News has more on this effort.