Food Safety & Quality Videos

Jack Van Der Sanden, renowned International Food Safety Advisor at bioMérieux, delves into the crucial realm of environmental monitoring and how it safeguards food production.

Re-visit the 5th edition of the European Dairy Quality Conference!

View the recordings of our speaker's presentations below, or if you're in a rush, watch the 1minute snippets from the day for the core messages.

 

Rapidly detect common wine spoilers before bottling in both red and white wines with VERIFLOW® BOTTLESAFE™. The VERIFLOW® BOTTLESAFE™ pre-bottling quality tools validate filtration and ensure your carefully crafted wines are free of common spoilage bacteria and yeast, protecting your vintage bottles and your brand.

In this video, Benjamin Pascal explains how to get next-day Alicyclobacillus and guaiacol producer results thanks to one of our latest innovations: GENE-UP® PRO ACB.

In this video, Robert Butler (Food marketing manager - northern Europe) explains why the analysis for Alicyclobacillus is key for fruit concentrates and sweetener producers.

"One of the components of this partnership with bioMérieux is the access to the services of the Predictive Diagnostics Innovation Center. The idea is that we can go to the planning, do this mapping, see the numbers, isolate the pathogens, and then the next stage is sequencing and fingerprinting and finding the source to see the behavior of those organisms in the system."

"There's a lot of different microbiology testing platforms out there, a lot of different testing companies, but the best advantage, and one of the reasons I love working with bioMérieux, is the customer service has been over the top."

"When it comes to quality and safety testing, confidence is the most important thing. If you don't have confidence in your data, what are you doing? You can't operate on those results."

"Working with bioMérieux has been really fun, because we've just been so excited about the results. We're so happy to see that this system is working well through all of these matrices and that it will be that quick turnaround time for our partners, our clients."

"If you have good testing at the end, nothing goes out to the market that will be wrong, but if your prevention fails and you detect it, then it goes into waste, and won’t enter the market. Our promise is always to work on prevention. We don't want waste in our plants, but we have a very robust sampling plan and a lot of methods that we use to test different parameters or attributes of the food that we release."

"Advice to the next generation of food safety leaders is to remember that when we're making food, we're not making a product. Be very open to new technologies and new ways of doing things, don't settle for the standard old way of doing things."

"Data is crucial in any field, but more importantly, the food safety industry. As we seek to be innovative in food safety, we have to have the data behind it."

"As an operations manager, obviously efficiencies are important. Fast, not very complicated methods are really important to the operations. But also performing those steps to a high standard."

"We are moving away from paperwork into systems that are integrated nationally and internationally, hopefully internationally, to ensure continuity of all information."

Hear how Tereos is now able to take a streamlined hands-on approach to product testing.

Watch Vincent discuss how these solutions have allowed Tereos to better assess product safety and make faster process decisions.

Hear from Plant Director, Gilles LAZAR, on how these solutions help Tereos achieve ‘five-star plus’ quality assurance.

Saving time as well as unlocking value from data are benefits of moving towards a preventive strategy rather than a corrective one: this is the next step according to Gérald Andriot, COO at Isigny Sainte-Mère. bioMérieux's goal is to bring the right answer through Predictive Diagnostics.

In a fast-changing world, having fast & reliable results is key when it comes to the quality of infant formula. The hard work invested by both companies, allowed the time-to-result to be reduced from 96 hours, to 20 hours.

Isigny Sainte-Mère is an independent dairy cooperative located in Normandy (France) whose origins date back to 1909. The rich pastures of this exceptional terroir are the source of prestigious and luxuriant grazing, a truly great source of butter and cream.

Discover how common values (active listening, expertise, quality) forge the partnership between both companies.

Rob Conover (Quality Manager, Kettlehouse Brewing Company), Denise Morin (QA/QC Manager, Beau’s Brewing), and Antonio Greco (Microbiology Director, Breckenridge Brewery) discuss upgrading to the BREWPRO™ system and the big advantage it provides by combining several necessary tests into one, saving precious lab time.

Rob Conover (Quality Manager, Kettlehouse Brewing Company), Taylor Simkins (Quality Control Manager, Anderson Valley Brewing Company), and Lauren Appleman (Lab Manager, Cape May Brewery) discuss the shortcomings of traditional micro methods and how the quick workflow and real-time aspect of the VERIFLOW® suite eases and reduces the lab process.

Denise Morin (QA/QC Manager, Beau’s Brewing) discusses contract brewing and the uncertainty that comes with transporting beer from their facility to another. VERIFLOW® helps give them peace of mind during this process by allowing them to check beer quality both before and after transport.

Sours - Testimonial

GENE-UP® BREW for real-time beer spoilers detection provides you actionable results for overall quality improvement. Combining key elements of our VERIFLOW® DNA signature capturing technology with our powerful multiplex RT-PCR plateform, GENE-UP® BREW offers a superior identification of known beer spoilers.

Russian River Brewing - Testimonial

Lauren Appleman (Lab Manager, Cape May Brewery), Rick Blankemeier (Quality Assurance Manager, Belching Beaver Brewing), and Rob Conover (Quality Manager, Kettlehouse Brewing Company) discuss how they use VERIFLOW® to help improve processes to consistently make higher quality beer for consumers.

Beer Quality Testing Made Easy - Testimonials

VIDAS® Video Tutorials

We are pleased to share a conversation with Jack Van der Sanders, International Food Safety Leader. Discover the part 5 : Key points to remember before launching your Environmental Monitoring Program!

We are pleased to share a conversation with Jack Van der Sanden, International Food Safety Leader. Discover the part 4: Designing an efficient Environmental monitoring program for your plant.

We are pleased to share a conversation with Jack Van der Sanders, International Food Safety Leader. Discover the part 3 : What to look for during an Environmental monitoring program:

We are pleased to share a conversation with Jack Van der Sanders, International Food Safety Leader. Discover the part 2 : Understanding the risks associated with pathogen testing:

We are pleased to share a conversation with Jack Van der Sanders, International Food Safety Leader. Discover the part 1 : Environmental Monitoring Program explained in a nutshell:

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"In the laboratory, we all work hard. We all spend a lot of time. If you look at bioMérieux and its automated solutions, they assist with that." - John Mills, Sr. Staff Scientist

"Anybody can collect data. At bioMérieux, we make sure that we are collecting data that suits your specific needs. We customize your studies to make sure that we are matching your requirements." - Vik Dutta, Sr. Director, Scientific Affairs

"For us to be able to come to bioMérieux saying we have an issue, help us solve this issue and they're more than willing to, which is great. And it's what you need in the industry, is companies and suppliers working together. So you can come to what you both really want in the end and can provide for other companies as well."

"The products we use from bioMérieux have helped us bring all of our testing in-house. Because we have all of our testing in-house, we have been certified for ISO 17025, which means that we are certified to the industry ISO standards, and we can release product based on real data that's accurate and is comparable to outside labs."

"We've delivered numerous solutions that have been successful for some of the most nagging and quality-impacting problems that our customers have and have not been able to have a solution for in the past. So let us help you. Let us understand what those problems are. We want to learn from you, and together we want to build a solution for those problems."

The Importance of Quality Control in a Brewery - Testimonials

As a premium supplier to the biggest retail chains in Europe, Simmental needs to maintain an extremely high-quality production process. Eliminating manual data collection processes has helped Simmental streamline workflows and prevent contamination.

Simmental utilizes an in-house laboratory that relies on simple tools with high flexibility and rapid turnaround capabilities. With everything in-house, results are swiftly analyzed and valuable time is saved.

Simmental makes sure to keep up with market trends, while ensuring they put farmers first. This includes addressing the growing demand for plant-based products by only using cows with the beta casein A2 inside.

On any given day, Simmental receives milk from many different regions: from mountainous, snowy terrains to tranquil fields where cows graze. The biggest challenge is creating consistent and cohesive products out of these varying types of milk.

Listen to the testimonial by Pedro Pinto, QC Manager of Birrificio Del Ducato Brewing.

Dairy products are complex to manufacture. In order to achieve optimal levels of control, numerous components are required. It’s important to generate data in high quantities at a maximum level of frequency, with the analysis carried out by system and data experts to allow us to master the process. In parallel, as we already have a decent amount of data we can get started.

Data is generated everywhere and at any time. This perpetual cycle raises the question of getting the best out of data to better share information, to create paperless workflows and capitalize on visual representations, all of which are a good place to start when thinking in terms of trends, helping to accelerate decision making.

If we are to ensure food safety & quality without testing finished products, then the skills and knowledge of people need to be placed at the heart of the discussion to get as close as possible to process control.

To decide on the release of a product, numerous parameters are considered when it comes to sampling: representability, size of the sample, the shortness of the time to result, with the possibility of constantly optimizing and improving.

bioMérieux’s solutions help save money by being simple, easy, and accurate, reducing time-to-result and cost of additional testing.