Rethinking enrichment media preparation in food microbiology laboratories
Monday, July 27 at 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EDT / 07:00 PDT
Media preparation remains a significant operational challenge in food microbiology laboratories. Traditional workflows can be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and difficult to scale, with hidden impacts on efficiency, consistency, and resource use.
In this SelectScience® webinar, experts from Thermo Fisher Scientific will explore the key bottlenecks associated with routine enrichment media preparation and how these can affect high-throughput food microbiology workflows.
Jaakko McVey, Senior Manager, Product Management, will outline the challenges facing laboratories and discuss approaches to improving efficiency, consistency, and scalability. Bryan De Caux, Staff Scientist, Culture Media, will provide a technical perspective, demonstrating how a modern enrichment media preparation workflow performs in practice within routine laboratory environments. He will be joined live from the lab by Aidan Doyle, R&D Culture Media Specialist, who will support the on-screen demonstration.
Attendees will gain practical insight into how laboratories can reduce manual preparation burden, improve workflow consistency, support traceability, and optimize the use of skilled staff in food safety testing.
Who should attend?
Operations directors, laboratory directors and managers, food safety leaders, quality leaders, principal investigators, continuous-improvement teams, and senior microbiology professionals.
Certificate of attendance
If you attend the live webinar, you will automatically receive a certificate of attendance, including a learning outcomes summary, for continuing education purposes. If you view the on-demand webinar, you can request a certificate of attendance by emailing editor@selectscience.net.
Webinar details
- Cost: Free to attend
- Location: Online
- Duration: 60 minutes
Registration is required to secure your place. If you register but can’t attend live, you will receive a link to the on-demand recording once it becomes available.
Speakers
Moderator
Who should attend?
- Operations directors
- Lab directors
- Lab managers
- Food safety professionals
- Contract testing lab professionals
What will this webinar cover?
Key learning objectives:
- Understand the operational challenges associated with traditional media preparation workflows
- Explore how workflow design can impact efficiency, consistency, and scalability in food microbiology laboratories
- Gain insight into the practical implementation of modern enrichment media preparation approaches
- Learn how improved workflows can support traceability, standardization, and more efficient use of laboratory resources
Join the webinar to get answers to these questions:
- How can food microbiology labs reduce the labor, space, waste, and variability associated with traditional media preparation?
- What operational bottlenecks are limiting efficiency and scalability in high-throughput workflows?
- How can enrichment media preparation be standardized to improve consistency and traceability?
- What should laboratories consider when evaluating new approaches to media preparation?
- How can workflows be optimized to better support food safety outcomes and laboratory throughput?