Archives for January 2, 2013

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US Congress backs deal to avert ‘dairy cliff’

By Mark Astley

US Congress has cleared a bill that will extend the government’s current milk-buying programme - effectively preventing a steep increase in the price of dairy products.

USDA explores faster E.coli detection method

By Joe Whitworth

A new real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) system offers a “promising method” for testing for shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) in food samples, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).