Mars, IBM Set Food Safety Consortium

摘要

In an interesting pairing, Mars Inc. and IBM Research on Jan. 29 established the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain, a collaborative food safety platform that will leverage advances in genomics to further the understanding of what makes food safe. "As the food supply chain becomes more global and complex, new, innovative approaches that use genetic data to better understand and improve food safety are emerging, holding the promise of unparalleled insight and understanding of the total supply chain," the companies said in making the announcement. "In support of this goal, the consortium will conduct the largest-ever metagenomics study to categorize and understand micro-organisms and the factors that influence their activity in a normal, safe factory environment.