Qualitative pathogen detection, quantitative enumeration of indicator and spoilage organisms, microbiological toxins, and special microbiological services.
Analyzing capabilities include fat, contaminants, allergen testing, carbohydrates, sweeteners, minerals, metals, heavy metals, fats, oils, and rancidity.
Our services comprise testing of water, air, soil, waste and other products to assess their quality and impact on health and the environment.
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Riverpoint Laboratories is committed to provide the highest quality services, accurate results in time and expert advice by its highly qualified staff. The reliability and accuracy of its data help customers make adequate decisions and meet their increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the expanding demands of regulatory authorities around the world.
JUNE 21, 2021 | NEWS
SUMMER IS HERE - DON'T FORGET SAFETY PROTOCOLS FOR PRODUCE
NEWS DESK
Each summer, Oklahomans find themselves celebrating weekends with backyard barbeques, and while the grilled meats may be the main attraction, a summer cookout is incomplete without the perfect summer salad.
Just as there are safety protocols for handling meat, there also are recommendations for the proper handling of produce. Food handling misconceptions are threatening to consumers, said Ravi Jadeja, food safety specialist for Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center.
MAY 4, 2021 | NEWS
THE FUTURE OF FAKE MEAT
GARY C. SMITH, PH.D., TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Most of the manufacturers of fake meat have no interest in “competing” with those who produce meat conventionally; their vision, intent, or goal is more sinister than that. Among the “25 Claims In Support Of Meat Substitutes” are these: (1) “Our vision is not to provide an alternative; it is to replace meat”; (2) “We intend to replace animals as a food production technology”; and (3) “Our company’s goal is to eliminate the need for animals in the food-chain by 2035”. And they expect to do it soon. Bonny et al. (2015), in Journal of Integration Agriculture, are so sure of its imminent success they predict that plant-based meat-alternatives (PBMAs) and cell-cultured meat-alternatives (CCMAs) will push conventional meat into the premium end of retail sales–and that real meat will have to compete at higher competitive retail prices.
JUNE 1, 2021 | NEWS
STAYING AHEAD OF THE BACTERIA:
A NEW WEAPON IN THE ANTI-BACTERIAL ARMS RACE
In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge, in part by revealing bacterial weaknesses and potentially by leading to more targeted or new treatments for bacterial infections.
A research team led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has developed chemical probes to help identify an enzyme, produced by some types of E. coli and pneumococcal bacteria, known to break down several common types of antibiotics, making these bacteria dangerously resistant to treatment.
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