Produce Testing Solutions
Food Safety for Fruits, Veggies, and Nuts
Every minute is essential in ensuring that fruits, vegetables, oats, and grains maintain a safe and consistent quality for customers. Rapidly detecting pathogens in products that can go bad quickly is essential in keeping your business running smoothly.
Our Produce Solutions
With a complementary range of diagnostic technologies, bioMérieux testing solutions help protect your customers, your brand, and your bottom line.
TEMPO®
TEMPO is a fully automated enumeration system that tests for quality indicators in food products and environmental samples within your laboratory. TEMPO has 5 methods published in the Health Canada Compendium of Analytical Methods.
VIDAS® KUBE™
VIDAS® KUBE™ detects a broad range of food pathogens using proven enzyme-linked fluorescent immunoassay and current-edge recombinant phage protein technology. VIDAS® has 9 methods published in Health Canada Compendium of Analytical Methods.
GENE-UP®
To protect your customers, your company and your reputation, you need a quick and easy method of detecting pathogens. GENE-UP offers ready-to-use test kits for your most pressing food safety concerns.
BIOBALL®
BIOBALL is a small water-soluble ball containing a precise number of microorganisms delivering unprecedented accuracy for quantitative microbiological quality control.
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MINIMIZING FOOD-BORNE VIRUS RISK IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY
Human enteric viruses are the number one cause of food-borne outbreaks worldwide. Whether you are a producer, an importer, an exporter, a processor, a retailer or a wholesaler, taking into account the viral risk is crucial to protecting consumers. Unlike bacteria, food-borne viruses do not change the flavor or any noticeable aspect of the food products; moreover, they are hard to get rid of with the usual agro-industrial processes.
STEC: A WORRYING ZOONOTIC TOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI, FROM FARM TO FORK
STEC are zoonotic agents i.e., pathogenic microorganisms transmitted from asymptomatic animals to humans. ‘Bovine meat and products thereof’, ‘raw milk and dairy products thereof’, ‘tap water including well water’ and ‘vegetables, fruit and products thereof’ are considered as the main sources of foodborne STEC outbreaks (FDA, 2012; EFSA, 2020 & 2021).
BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP: PERSISTENT AND HARMFUL TOXIN-PRODUCING MICROORGANISMS IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY
The Bacillus cereus group, also known as B. cereus sensu lato or “presumptive Bacillus cereus” consists of Gram-positive, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacilli, commonly isolated from soil, other environmental and food matrices.