Molecular characterization

Quality Partner has the great pleasure to inform you about the launch of its new service: metagenomics applied to food microbiology! This new service is based on high-throughput sequencing technology and a unique expertise. The aim of metagenomics is to identify ALL microorganisms in a food sample or other media.

This new analysis method offers revolutionary perspectives in many areas related to food. This brand new technique allows, for example:

• to improve quality through identification and monitoring of spoilage flora during the shelf life;
• to identify the contamination source in a food;
• to measure the effect of any change in the production chain in order to extend the shelf life of a product;
• etc