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podcast: the microbiology of your christmas dinner
december 19, 2022
in this festive episode of microbe talk, charlotte speaks to dr lorna lancaster about the harmful and helpful microbes involved in making christmas food.
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can the sniff test replace ‘use by’ dates on milk?
october 26, 2022
nathan devlin writes about his undergraduate research project which investigated the microbial counts of milk samples at the end of their shelf life, to determine whether a simple 'sniff test' could safely replace 'use by' dates.
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we’ll have no bananas?
july 15, 2014
reports of the imminent demise of the world’s most popular fruit have surfaced repeatedly over the course of the last decade. bananas, particularly those grown in large monocultures for the hungry markets of the eu and the us, are vulnerable to a number of diseases, and fears are mounting that the tide is turning against our prevention and mitigation strategies. how much stock should we put in these reports – are the days of the banana truly numbered? jon fuhrmann investigates.
