The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is incorporating a new, state-of-the-art technology to advance its Microbiological Data Program (MDP) laboratories. The USDA-MDP has purchased nine TEMPO® units from bioMérieux (Paris:BIM), a leading industrial microbiology and diagnostics company. TEMPO, the first and only automated food quality testing and enumerating system, will perform generic E. coli testing for fresh produce in all MDP participating State laboratories nationwide.
