College Park startup Pathotrak aims to speed up food safety testing, prevent E. coli and other outbreaks

A College Park startup that aims to increase the speed of food safety testing recently reached a milestone with the certification of its test sample preparation process. Pathotrak’s process enables food safety testing to occur in. The product is now certified by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists International to detect salmonella and E. coli in romaine lettuce. The AOAC, founded in 1884, sets industry standards for food safety technology.