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Food Safety & Quality

While adapting to consumers' new preferences, the food industry is undergoing major changes challenging the way they need to approach safety and quality.

To help the food processing industry keep pace with the rapidly changing environment, we are investing heavily in disruptive science and technology.

This enables our customers to anticipate emerging risks and take full control of their operations.

Augmented Diagnostics - A Disruptive New Approach to Food Safety

In close partnership with our customers, we've worked with leading global food and beverage companies to develop our Augmented Diagnostics approach. This innovative approach enhances the precision and effectiveness of safety and quality control programs throughout the entire production value chain.

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Our Four Areas Of Expertise At Your Service

Augmented Diagnostics is a combination of cutting-edge testing technologies (covering microbiology and molecular biology) and the latest data science & genomic capabilities — all pioneered by our innovative spirit.

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The Food Industry Is At A Turning Point

The food industry is facing significant challenges that demand a new approach to safety and quality. As consumer demands evolve, processors must tackle rising non-quality costs, recent recalls, stricter safety regulations, and industry digitalization, all within a complex macro-economic environment marked by supply chain disruptions and inflation.

Additionally, the industry must address consumer trends like the demand for plant-based products, health and well-being, and transparency through clean labels. With looming sustainability challenges, including the need to produce 60% more food by 2050, it's crucial for food manufacturers to embrace innovative technologies and data sciences to improve productivity, reduce waste, and lower their carbon footprint.

Food Safety and Quality Economic Challenge

Macro-Economic & Societal

→ Supply-chain disruption

→ Inflation & cost pressure

→ Geo-political uncertainties

New Consumer Demands

→ Clean labels

→ Animal alternatives

→ Health & well-being

→ Transparency

Food Safety and Quality challenges and issues

Food Safety & Quality

→ Non-quality costs rising

→ Recent unprecedented recalls

→ Food safety digitalization

→ Stringent food safety regulations

Sustainability

→ CO2 footprint reduction

→ Responsible management of water resources

Industries

At bioMérieux, we continually innovate with the evolving and emerging needs of the food industry to provide cutting-edge, reliable, and easy-to-use solutions. As our portfolio has grown through R&D and acquisition, we have consistently raised our bar to ensure we are providing the right solutions to the industries that need them most.

We serve multiple segments in the food manufacturing sector, ensuring that we have a custom approach and deep understanding of the unique needs of each industry.

Animal Proteins: Meat & Alternatives

Discover accurate, reliable, and easy-to-use detection methods for the top pathogenic strains in your meat, poultry, pork, seafood and egg products.

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Beverages

New ingredients and different types of production processes are disrupting the beverage industry. Our microbial detection solutions will help you maintain a consistent quality across the entire production chain.

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Cocoa & Chocolate Confectionery

As a chocolate or confectionery maker, you want a streamlined quality control process with reliable reagents and accurate results you can trust.

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Dairy & Plant Based

bioMérieux provides this technology for the Dairy industry through microbiology testing solutions that offer a rapid, streamlined laboratory workflow with consistent and reliable results. This allows for laboratory processes to become automated and to work at an optimal level, while also being highly cost-effective.

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Dietary Supplements

The unstandardized approach to nutraceutical regulation puts a large responsibility on supplement manufacturers to ensure a high level of quality controls—that’s where we come in.

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bioMérieux recognizes the challenges faced by pet food producers and the limitations of existing tests. bioMérieux empowers pet food makers with comprehensive, actionable insights throughout the production process, aiding in raw material and supplier risk management, prevention of cross-contamination, and ultimately safeguarding the health of beloved pets.

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Produce

The produce industry is ripe with products that have a short or lessened shelf life. In this case, every minute is essential in ensuring that products such as fruit, vegetables, oats and grains maintain a safe and consistent quality for customers. Rapidly detecting pathogens in vegetables and fruits that go bad quickly is essential to keep your business running smoothly.

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Ready-To-Eat Food

With rapid and accurate diagnostic testing, you can be confident your product is safe for public consumption.

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Applications

How To Be "In Control" And Anticipate Risks

At bioMérieux, we know that reliable data is critical to any food production operation. How that data flows between the production floor and the laboratory can have a profound impact on how and when decisions are made, how risk is mitigated, and how profits and efficiencies are maximized.

With our Augmented Diagnostics approach, we help turn test results and data into actionable insights, providing value across every aspect of food safety testing.

Environmental Monitoring

Our automated environmental monitoring program helps you identify potential spoilage or safety issues and improves real-time decisions.

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Quality Indicators

Stay in control and improve your operational efficiency with convenient, accurate, and rapid quality indicator tests.

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Pathogen Detection

Our pathogen detection products help you make confident decisions during critical manufacturing processes for overall improved manufacturing efficiency.

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Spoilage Detection

Traditional testing methods for spoilage organisms can take up to 10 days. Rapidly detect spoilage organisms with our suite of solutions.

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Microbial Culture & Identification

Our microbial identification solutions allow you to differentiate, confirm and identify microbes with confidence.

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Custom Molecular Assays

We provide reliable and easy-to-use solutions using bioinformatics, metagenomics, and innovative out-of-the-box R&D to deliver unmatched value and data-rich insights to the food safety and quality community.

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Sample and Media Preparation

We help you to optimize and standardize your media and sample preparation with our ready-to-use media, enrichments and diluents, and media preparation technologies.

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Commercial Sterility

We offer solutions that will give you accurate, objective, and fast results so you don’t have to worry about product recalls or your brand reputation.

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Trusted Third Party biomérieux and mérieux

Trusted Third Party – A Collaborative Data-Driven model to enhance consumer safety control systems

In partnership with key industry leaders (Barry Callebaut, Danone, Mars, Mondelēz International, Nestlé, and PepsiCo), bioMérieux and Mérieux NutriSciences have co-developed an innovative data-driven model that aims to improve food safety control systems by sharing and analyzing data.

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Services

Your productivity and product quality are our priority. Our entire range of services can be customized, allowing you to focus on your core business and optimize your resources.

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Our Suite Of Cutting-Edge Solutions

From Test Results To Actionable Insights

Our product range reflects our comprehensive Augmented Diagnostics approach to improving food quality and safety. We use traditional core microbiology solutions alongside bioinformatics, data science, genomics, diagnostic innovation, and predictive modeling to move the industry from detecting and responding to issues to actively preventing them.

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AIR IDEAL^® 3P^®

Bring Confidence to your Environmental Monitoring

AIR IDEAL® 3P® is used for the detection of viable organisms through active air sampling.

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API^®

Manual Microbial Identification

API® makes microbial identification simple and reliable. Combining a standardized method with an extensive and robust digital microbial ID knowledge base, API® can easily be implemented into any microbiology laboratory.

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APS ONE™

AUTOMATED CULTURE MEDIA PLATE POURING SYSTEM

Automated Pourer Stacker for Petri dishes – a culture media plate pouring system that makes it possible to prepare superior homemade culture media plates for high quality test results.

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BACT/ALERT^® 3D

The Method of Choice for Rapid Sterility Testing

BACT/ALERT^® 3D was developed as an effective and safe solution for industrial sterility testing. From its ease of use to its flexibility, BACT/ALERT^® 3D is a state-of-the art microbial detection system suitable for any size laboratory, providing you with a reliable and objective alternative to traditional microbial detection methods.

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BACT/ALERT^®Culture Media Bottles

Innovative and Optimized Culture Media

The BACT/ALERT^® Culture Media Bottles, used in conjunction with the BACT/ALERT^® 3D or BACT/ALERT^® VIRTUO^®, offer advantages across every dimension of microbial testing.

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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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CONNECT-UP^™

Data Management Solution

CONNECT-UP™ is our laboratory data management solution that simplifies workflow by connecting every step—from sample to decision.

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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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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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ETEST^®

Improving Therapeutic Decisions

The ETEST® method provides a level of precision that other manual Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST) methods cannot.

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Pathogen Environmental Monitoring E-Learning Course

Elevate your team's expertise and ensure consistent planning and execution across your organization with our interactive eLearning course.

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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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Augmented Diagnostics In Action

Our customers' stories demonstrate the value and benefits of the Augmented Diagnostics approach and how it can move food producers from reaction to anticipation and prevention.

Case Studies

ECKES GRANINI

Preventing Unwanted Fermentation, Ensuring Product Quality & Making Faster Decisions

Learn how daily use of D-COUNT® for over 20 years has helped prevent unwanted fermentation, ensure product quality, and make faster decisions to limit scrap and faster product release.

LAÏTA

Finding The Root Cause Of Contamination Using Genomics

The aim: to detect, monitor and investigate at every step of the infant formula production process in order to minimize the risk of contamination.

CRONOBACTER

Understanding & Mitigating Cronobacter Contamination To Save $2 Million

We utilized our suite of tools and specialists to help the customer gain never-before-seen insights to effectively mitigate their persistent C. sakazakii challenge.

NATURE'S WAY

Nature’s Way Adopts Innovative Solutions To Optimize Dietary Supplement Quality Control

Nature’s Way, a leading manufacturer of dietary supplements, adopted the TEMPO® automated enumeration solution and GENE-UP® NUTRAPLEX™ PRO multiplex PCR assay in their quality control laboratories. Learn how this helped them combat the challenges of traditional microbial testing methods and reduce their cost per sample by ~40%.

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