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A Practical Guide to Spoilage Investigation and Prevention

KEYWORDS: metagenomics / spoilage
6/10/26 11:00 am to 6/10/27 EDT
Contact: Vania Halabou

Routine testing can flag spoilage, but it often doesn't explain root cause—or how to prevent recurrence. In this educational webinar, Justin Cabrita and Dr. Martin Wiedmann share a practical, investigation-driven approach to spoilage prevention using SMARTBIOME™ from bioMérieux—an innovative solution that combines high precision DNA analysis, advanced bioinformatics, data science, an exclusive spoilers knowledge base, and expert consulting.

You'll learn how strategic sampling across raw materials, in process environments, and finished products can uncover hidden microbiological risks, identify likely sources of spoilage, guide targeted corrective actions, and help verify the effectiveness of interventions. By translating complex microbiome data into actionable insights, this approach helps reduce non-quality costs, minimize scrap, and strengthen confidence in product quality—while protecting your brand.

Key takeaways:

  • How to progress from detection to root cause understanding and prevention
  • How metagenomics can help identify potential sources of spoilage risk in raw materials, in-process, and finished products
  • How microbiome insights can inform corrective and preventive strategies, illustrated through real-world use cases

This session will focus on concepts, examples, and ways of thinking, rather than prescriptive testing or corrective action plans, which are highly site-specific.


Speakers:

Justin Cabrita, Senior Corporate Account Manager, bioMérieux. Justin Cabrita brings more than 15 years of experience to his current role as Senior Corporate Account Manager for North America at bioMérieux, where he serves as a trusted advisor on contamination risk reduction, spoilage prevention and data-driven decision-making for bioMérieux's most complex and high-value food industry partners. Justin's blend of technical depth and real-world manufacturing insights results in employing advanced rapid microbiology solutions to improve product safety, quality, and operational efficiency. Justin has worked extensively across a wide variety of food segments, helping customers implement innovative technologies—from rapid detection to metagenomics—to reduce non-quality costs and protect brand integrity. Justin holds a B.S. degree in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University and has graduate training in Biomedical Science.





Martin Wiedmann, D.M.V., Ph.D., Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety, Cornell University. Martin Wiedmann, D.V.M., Ph.D. is the Gellert Family Professor of Food Safety at Cornell University. He received a veterinary degree and a doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, and a Ph.D. in Food Science from Cornell. His research interests focus on farm-to-table microbial food quality and food safety, as well as the application of molecular tools and quantitative/modeling approaches to study the transmission of foodborne pathogens and spoilage organisms and facilitate strategies to reduce food quality and safety risks. He and his team are regularly asked to help industry across the world with a range of microbial food safety and quality challenges. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), and the International Academy of Food Science and Technology.





Moderator: Adrienne Blume, Editorial Director, Food Safety Magazine


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