Arasains Webinar: Pathogen testing solutions to enhance food safety & avoid foodborne disease
As a starter of the new year, PT Arasains has held the first webinar this year with the title ‘Pathogen testing solutions to enhance food safety & avoid foodborne disease’ on Thursday, 11th January 2024. In this webinar, PT Arasains collaborated with well-known Professor in food microbiology, Prof. Ratih Dewanti-Hariyadi, PhD to share her insights. We received overwhelmed enthusiasm from our customers with more than 250 participant that join this webinar.
Prof. Ratih Dewanti-Hariyadi, PhD was presenting about Designing Useful Microbiological Testing for Food Safety and Quality. She mentioned that we should understand what the purpose to do the testing to get the correct information about our production line. There are many different tests in every step of food process to give useful information from ingredient testing until end-product testing. This interesting topic gained a lot of questions from customers to get specific information about their production line.
The second topic in this webinar is about Available method in Pathogen Testing presented by Nadira Annisa Putri, Sr. Support Specialist & Marketing PT. Arasains. The topic is cover about methods available that can help customers pathogen testing. Some of the methods are lateral flow strips with specific antibody from RomerLabs for Salmonella spp, Listeria spp., L. monocytogenes and Campylobacter spp. and also PCR testing that has simple DNA Extraction from R-Biopharm, SureFast Salmonella ONE and SureFast Listeria 3plex ONE. She also mentioned that in pathogen testing, the enrichment step is very important to get accurate and reliable result.
This webinar was attended by government, commercial laboratory, and various food industry such as dairy, seafood exporter etc. At the end of this webinar, we did lucky draw for all participant that raise the questions during this webinar. We hope we can see all customers again in the next webinar!
