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market, and generate combined annual revenues of approximately €45m.


In preparation of the expected integration of the IPL SED companies into Eurofins, both groups have commenced a commercial and technical co-operation to combine their expertise in environmental analysis, and now offer customers an integrated portfolio of high-quality analytical solutions, with an optimal coverage of the French market.


Major US initiative Te US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the University of Maryland, their Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), and Waters Corporation have opened the International Food Safety Training Laboratory (IFSTL) - a groundbreaking public-private partnership that applies government, university and private industry expertise and resources to the global food safety challenge.


Te IFSTL is the world’s only permanent food safety lab that provides hands-on lab training on detection methods and classroom lessons on regulatory standards, educating governments and food exporters so they can ensure food is safe before it reaches the table. Tis, it says, will enable food safety standards to rise globally.


Food producers across the globe face an increasing challenge to ensure safe food supplies. As global food trade grows to nearly US$1 trillion in 2011, triple what it was just 20 years ago, food safety regulations and technologies are evolving and consumer demand for safe, high- quality food continues to grow.


Governments and food manufacturers around the world have sought the training the IFSTL provides, believing it is essential to meet today’s food safety challenge.


Said Waters executive vice president Art Caputo: “Waters is committed to improving the availability, quality


and consistency of food safety testing capacity. We learned from our customers that there is a real need for help and support in understanding the diverse food safety technologies and standards that exist around the globe.


“Serving as a bridge between governments and industry, Waters approached the FDA and the university with the solution: a powerful public-private partnership that leverages the best expertise and resources to help build trust, collaboration and ensure the safety of our food.”


As a US-based global company that delivers analytical solutions for governments and name brand companies in 150 countries, Waters says it understands the challenges that governments around the world face to ensure safe food supplies.


Te FDA has publically identified the need for government and private industry to work together. Te IFSTL will provide critical support


to helping the FDA and foreign food producers meet requirements, such as the US Food Safety Modernisation Act signed into law in early 2011.


Said Michael Landa, director with the FDA’s, Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: “FDA looks forward to this opportunity to build global laboratory capacity. Te International Food Safety Training laboratory will help to address food safety challenges world-wide through training and technical assistance.”


US government scientists from FDA and USDA, along with university experts, will lead intensive trainings focused on detecting both chemical and microbiological contaminants, preparing and testing samples according fit-for-purpose methods that allow scientists to validate and use results to make the right decisions about whether food is safe and meets regulations.


Trainees can sign up for courses that address specific issue of concern both to the U.S. and global communities


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