bioMérieux’s TEMPO® STA Assay Gains International Approvals for Food Safety Testing

bioMérieux (Marcy L’Etoile, France) announced that the TEMPO® STA, an automated quality indicator test for the fast enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus in food products, has been approved by both the AFNOR Validation according to the ISO 16140 norm, and the AOAC Research Institute. TEMPO STA provides results in 24 hours without any need for confirmatory testing, compared to traditional methods, which take anywhere from 48 hours to 4 days for results.