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Pathogen surveillance across supply chains
A multi-year program sampling ingredients at receiving, in-process and finished stages to find where risks really enter — and stop them there.
Program overview
Most recalls are blamed on "the supplier" with little evidence. Since 2017 we have sampled leafy greens, soft cheese and ready-meal ingredients from fourteen partner facilities, building a map of where Salmonella and Listeria actually appear in the chain.
Partners receive quarterly risk profiles for their own supply base, benchmarked anonymously against the program — plus first access to the genomic fingerprint library.
What the program delivers
01
Risk maps
Receiving-to-release sampling pinpoints the highest-risk handoff in your specific chain.
02
Early warnings
Seasonal patterns from the network flag high-risk windows before your lots arrive.
03
Shared library
Strain fingerprints let any partner check a new isolate against years of program data.
Approach & methods
Standardized swab and product protocols across all partners, PCR prescreen with cultural confirmation, and whole-genome sequencing for every persistent strain. Anonymized data is reviewed quarterly by our scientific panel and published annually for the wider industry.
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Partners get quarterly risk profiles and priority testing rates.
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