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Salmonella detection has been a main-stay requirement in the food industry to prevent foodborne illness. While enrichment-based assays for the Presence / Absence detection of food pathogens are still vital to a safe and abundant global food supply, the food industry has longed for an easy to use and reliable diagnostic solution to accurately quantify levels of Salmonella to aid in process and product disposition decisions at the operational level.

bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in-vitro diagnostics, today announced that it has received the first-ever cannabis-related Performance Tested MethodsSM (PTM) validation for the enumeration of yeasts and molds for its TEMPO® YM Assay (PTM 041001) by the AOAC INTERNATIONAL’s Emergency Response Validation (ERV) program.

Invisible Sentinel, a bioMérieux Company, drove the innovation for the first method approved by the AOAC Research Institute Performance Tested Methods℠,(PTM) for the analysis of cannabis flower for pathogenic Aspergillus spp. within the marketplace, the assay is aptly named the GENE-UP® AspergillusPRO.

As the cannabis and hemp industry grow exponentially, the need for consumer safety is now more important than ever. Supporting that need for product and consumer safety, bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, received approval from the AOAC Research Institute Performance Tested Methods℠ (PTM) for the detection of Salmonella and STEC (Shiga toxin-producing E. coli) contaminants in cannabis flower and whole hemp flower utilizing GENE-UP® SLM2 (PTM 121802) and EHEC (PTM 121806) assays.

bioMérieux announces the launch of BIOFIRE^® MYCOPLASMA, an innovative test for mycoplasma detection in pharmaceutical products used for biotherapeutics (antibodies, hormones, cell and gene therapies, etc.), the most vibrant sector in the pharmaceutical industry.