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Pathogen Detection

Preventing Listeria Contamination in the Food Industry

Listeria are hardy bacteria that can survive and multiply in cold, moist environments—such as refrigerators, drains, and processing lines. Among them, Listeria monocytogenes is the most concerning due to its ability to contaminate ready-to-eat (RTE), dairy, meat, seafood products and cause serious illness in vulnerable populations (Listeriosis).

Listeria Prevention & Control with Augmented Diagnostics

Why Listeria Monitoring Matters?

Invasive listeriosis is life-threatening — it causes high hospitalization and death rates, and puts pregnant women, the elderly, and immunocompromised people at severe risk.

The presence of Listeria spp. in the environment often serves as an indicator of contamination by Listeria monocytogenes.

Implementing an Augmented Diagnostics approach can help answer questions caused by Listeria contamination such as :

  • How can you manage raw material quality to avoid Listeria contamination?
  • How can you detect and understand the presence of Listeria in your environment, raw materials, and products?
  • How can you rapidly find the origin of a Listeria monocytogenes contamination in order to take effective, corrective, and preventive actions?
  • How can you protect your brand image and avoid outbreaks?
  • How can you limit the cost and associated costs of a Listeria contamination?
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bioMérieux’s Augmented Diagnostics approach empowers food producers with smarter tools to detect, trace, and eliminate Listeria - from routine testing to root cause analysis.

Find the Root Cause of Your Listeria monocytogenes Contamination with our new innovation - GENE-UP® TYPER

With GENE UP® TYPER - Now You Know - Where it comes from, What it is and What to do.

This real-time PCR assay utilizes probabilistic typing of specific microorganisms to help identify the root cause of contamination and avoid future recurrence within 2 hours from an isolated colony.

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Our Listeria Detection & Prevention Solutions

  • BIOBALL® Standardized Strains for Food Applications

    BIOBALL® delivers unprecented accuracy and precision, batch after batch.

    A small freeze dried water-soluble Certified Reference Material containing a precise number of viable micro-organisms for Quantitative Quality Control

  • Culture Media    

    Comprehensive Control

    Reliable culture media solutions safeguard food products from contamination, making them an integral part of your laboratory’s daily quality control testing. 

  • DILUMAT®

    Automated Sample Dilution

    The DILUMAT® dilution system is designed to ensure accurate dilutions and reduce contamination risks, standardizing your sample preparation and evolving with your needs.

  • Dehydrated Culture Media for the Food Industry

    FLEXIBILITY AND OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE

    bioMérieux's Dehydrated Culture Media are specially formulated to offer optimal performance in various microbiological testing contexts and meet the specific requirements of the food industry.

  • EGENE-UP® EASYPREP SOLUTION

    Simplify the RNA/DNA extraction of foodborne pathogens using a semi-automation system

    The EGENE-UP® EASYPREP is a game-changer for specific protocol for Salmonella detection in cocoa and chocolate matrices, delivering results in less than 12 hours.

  • GENE-UP® NUTRAPLEX™ PRO microbial testing for nutraceuticals

    A Paradigm Shift in Microbial Quality Testing for Nutraceuticals

    Nutraceutical products are inherently complex, making recovery and detection of microbial contaminants a challenge. The streamlined GENE-UP® NUTRAPLEX™ PRO assay enables faster operations, compared to traditional methods that are time consuming and labor intensive. 

  

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Move from Test Results to Actionable Insights with Augmented Diagnostics.

This approach helps our customers increase the precision and actionability of their safety and quality control programs along their entire production value-chain.