IBM Research and Mars, Incorporated have established the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain – a collaborative food safety platform that will leverage advances in genomics to further our understanding of what makes food safe.
Launched on 29 January 2015, the Consortium aims to undertake “the largest ever metagenomics study” to unlock food safety insights across the supply chain.
The Consortium’s scientists will investigate the genetic fingerprints of living organisms such as bacteria, fungi or viruses and how they grow in different environments, including countertops, factories, and raw materials. This data will be used to further investigate how bacteria interact, which could result in completely new ways to view supply chain food safety management.
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