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Analytes

Listeria monocytogenes

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Enumeration Test

Test Description

This quantitative proficiency test evaluates your testing ability for the enumeration of Listeria moncytogenes in chicken.

Microbiological contamination of food can cause a range of sickness symptoms, the most extreme of which can result in hospitalisation, contamination can also cause food spoilage. Contamination can result from raw ingredients, poor sanitation or hygiene practices, or inappropriate storage conditions.

Listeria can cause illness for those who consume contaminated foodstuffs in large enough quantities. As such it is important to highlight any Listeria strains within foodstuffs accurately, as well as quantifying their levels within foodstuffs. Proficiency testing from Fapas should be used to challenge your laboratory to ensure only high quality test results are offered to regulators and your customers.

Chicken is consumed globally in large numbers, this can put suppliers and wider supply chains under large amounts of pressure to satisfy this extensive demand. This pressure can increae the risk of poor storage and manufacturing practises being undertaken, from which to put consumers at risk. Your effective testing measures should therefore be utilised to ensure only safe, high quality food is offered to consumers.

Proficiency testing activities from Fapas can challenge your laboratories as they would be within their routine testing activities. This can ensure clear and concise improvements can be found from which to safeguard your testing ability over a longer timescale.

Fapas food microbiology proficiency test samples combine the test organisms into real food matrices or swabs, together with background flora to fully represent real-world samples.

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