{"id":961,"date":"2007-08-30T04:02:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T11:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2007-08-30T08:34:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T15:34:59","slug":"food-detectives-offer-olympic-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Food Detectives Offer Olympic Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/invitrogenlogo.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/invitrogenlogo.gif','popup','width=189,height=32,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/invitrogenlogo-tm.jpg\" height=\"16\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Invitrogenlogo\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.invitrogen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Invitrogen Corporation<\/a><\/strong> (the life science technologies company) has been awarded the contract to provide &#8220;kits for detecting possible E. coli 0157 contamination in food at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Bejing, China.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bacteria, particularly E. coli, can present a serious threat to public health at a major global event such as the Olympics,&#8221; said <strong>Paul Kinnon<\/strong>, Vice President of Applied Market at Invitrogen. &#8220;Invitrogen&#8217;s Dynabeads&#174; are a reliable, accurate solution for keeping food safe from dangerous bacteria and a perfect example of how technologies developed to further basic research can also be used to protect what we eat and drink.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re wondering if they sell to the general public as a couple of those test kits would be the perfect thing to take our our next surf trip to mainland Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20070829005160&amp;newsLang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Businesswire<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad&#8217;s Invitrogen Corporation (the life science technologies company) has been awarded the contract to provide &#8220;kits for detecting possible E. coli 0157 contamination in food at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Bejing, China. &#8220;Bacteria, particularly E. coli, can present a serious threat to public health at a major global event such as the Olympics,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}