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The Chapman Newsroom featured research conducted at The Food Protection Lab in a recent news article: Chapman University Food Scientist Peels Back the Layers of Deceptive Labeling

Former Chapman University student Rachel Isaacs ’18 (M.S. ’19) was featured in the Alumni Spotlight for Schmid College of Science and Technology: An Unconventional Path to Becoming a Doctor.

This study was carried out as part of Steven Rogers’ thesis research and involved a collaboration with Food Microbiological Laboratories in Cypress, CA.  Steven studied the use of microplate immunocapture for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes in skim milk and soft cheese.  The article was published in the Journal of Microbiological Methods and can be accessed here.

Rowena Zahn took first place in the Aquatic Food Products Division Graduate Poster Competition at IFT 2018 in Chicago.  She presented her research on the optimization of DNA-based methods for the detection of elasmobranch species in shark cartilage pills.  Way to go, Rowena!

This study was carried out as part of Shayna Bosko’s thesis project and involved a collaboration with Santiago Canyon College.  In this project, a total of 80 catfish samples were collected from restaurants, grocery stores, and fish markets in Orange County, CA.  The samples were examined for Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) compliance and for species substitution.  The details of the study can be found here: “Species substitution and country of origin mislabeling of catfish products on the U.S. commercial market.“