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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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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.