Ensure your facility meets the highest standards of food safety with our ISO 17025-accredited Listeria environmental testing services. We help food manufacturers, processors, and packagers detect and control Listeria in their production environments—protecting your brand, your customers, and your regulatory standing.
Listeria is a resilient bacteria that thrives in cool, damp environments—making it a persistent threat in ready-to-eat (RTE) food production. Undetected contamination can lead to costly recalls, regulatory penalties, and serious public health risks.
Regular environmental testing is not just best practice—it’s a critical component of FSMA compliance and GFSI certification. Our testing program helps you:
Bruce Tompkin—one of the foundational voices in Listeria control—famously reframed how the industry should interpret environmental positives. His core message was:
“Finding Listeria in the environment should be viewed not as a failure, but as evidence that the monitoring program is working.”
This perspective was pivotal. Instead of treating a positive swab as a crisis, Tompkin emphasized that it shows the program is actively detecting risk before it reaches product contact surfaces. It’s a validation of vigilance, not a condemnation of sanitation.
His work helped shift the mindset from reactive to proactive—encouraging facilities to embrace environmental monitoring as a tool for continuous improvement, not just regulatory compliance.
We offer a streamlined, science-backed approach to Listeria testing:
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We make it easy to integrate Listeria testing into your routine operations:
Need help training your team? We offer virtual walkthroughs and SOP templates to ensure consistency and compliance.
Our clients span a wide range of sectors, including:
Whether you're a small batch producer or a national brand, we tailor our testing protocols to your facility’s unique risk profile.