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Pathogen Detection

Why Listeria Monitoring Matters?

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).

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.

Listeria Prevention & Control with Augmented Diagnostics

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 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 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

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  • 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. 

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  • 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.

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  • Ready-to-Use Broth for the Food Industry

    LARGE RANGE OF CULTURE MEDIA

    Our Ready-to-Use broth are designed specifically for the food industry, providing a reliable and convenient solution for microbial testing and quality control. They ensure industry professionals with safety, ease of use, and time efficiency, simplifying daily tasks and enabling you to concentrate on high-value activities.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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case study gene-up typer root cause analysis in raw milk

CASE STUDY

Augmented Diagnostics with GENE-UP® TYPER for root cause analysis of  Listeria monocytogenes in the production of raw milk products

A dairy product producer needed to assess the quality of milk upon arrival to make rapid decisions. Listeria monocytogenes is the key contaminant of concern in raw milk. Testing the presence of this contaminant is crucial. bioMérieux provided a 2 in 1 solution for routine detection and typing with GENE-UP® TYPER enabled rapid decision making.

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SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE

Listeria Infection, Prevention, and Control

Read more about Listeria bacteria and how it is safely monitored and controlled in the food manufacturing and processing industries.
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pathogen mapping salmon case study bioMérieux

CASE STUDY

Augmented Diagnostics with Pathogen Mapping for better understanding  of Listeria monocytogenes contaminations in the salmon production.

A ready-to-eat salmon producer was recurrently encountering Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes is a common contaminant in salmon. Testing for this contaminant is especially crucial for smoked salmon as it is a ready-to-eat food. bioMérieux performed Pathogen Mapping, a Whole Genome Sequencing solution (WGS) for strain typing and better understanding of pathogen contaminations

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Food Safety and Quality

Our Approach

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.

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