Spectacular Labs Joins Forces with Canadian Centre for Meat Innovation & Technology to Improve Food Safety Testing
June 25 2024 - 8:03AM
Business Wire
Spectacular’s fully automated, on-site
foodborne pathogen detection platform to help accelerate turnaround
times, streamline workflows, and reduce overall testing costs
Spectacular Labs Inc., a pioneer in next-generation foodborne
pathogen testing, today announced a collaboration with the Centre
for Meat Innovation & Technology (CMIT) to improve foodborne
pathogen testing. As part of the early access agreement, meat and
poultry producers across Canada will be able to use the Spectacular
OneTouch platform to validate assay performance and demonstrate its
intuitive workflow in meat and poultry applications. The
Spectacular platform was designed for rapid, on-site testing to
help prevent potential outbreaks, alleviate critical supply chain
bottlenecks, and shorten food production timelines.
As the meat and poultry processing industry across Canada
advances at a rapid rate, CMIT was established by Meat and Poultry
Ontario to help processors collaborate, find, and adopt new
technologies, and to make it easier for their employees to learn
and advance their skills. CMIT will deploy the Spectacular OneTouch
platform in the University of Guelph’s federally licensed
processing facility. Meat processors will be able to access the
platform to accelerate turnaround times, self-serve third-party
certification of analysis, and reduce overall testing costs.
“CMIT is dedicated to advancing the world’s leading meat
processing technologies and offering them to our network of meat
producers across Canada,” said Luis Garcia, Director of CMIT.
“Spectacular’s OneTouch platform has the potential to transform
traditional food safety testing through the ability to detect
harmful pathogens in their own facilities — faster and more easily
than ever before.”
Spectacular Labs was founded by scientists out of the University
of California, Berkeley, to reduce food safety testing
inefficiencies and modernize current workflows. It was the first
company to fully automate the foodborne pathogen testing workflow
from enrichment to reporting. The new OneTouch benchtop platform
requires only one minute of operator hands-on time. It is now being
used by a growing number of early access collaborators to detect
pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, Listeria, Escherichia coli,
and Campylobacter.
“This early access collaboration with CMIT underscores our
ongoing commitment to improving the accuracy, speed, and
affordability of foodborne pathogen detection,” said Arthur
Montazeri, PhD, Founder and President of Spectacular Labs. “CMIT is
a renowned entity that stands at the forefront of meat processing
innovation and product quality. We look forward to working with the
team to showcase the full utility of our innovative platform that
empowers food producers to deliver high-quality meat to consumers
as quickly as possible.”
In the future, the two organizations plan to expand the
engagement to further advance pathogen testing technologies and
enhance food safety protocols across the industry in order to
minimize waste, secure supply chains, fortify traceability, and
reduce cost of food for consumers.
About Centre for Meat Innovation & Technology
CMIT is founded and supported by Meat & Poultry Ontario to
advance and strengthen the Canadian meat processing industry. The
Centre is the leading Canadian meat hub powering industry
collaboration and innovation. CMIT is dedicated to showcasing the
world’s leading technology and helping Canadian processors adopt
these innovations to become more competitive. CMIT is the only
Canadian meat technology hub that encompasses skills development,
training and sharing best practices backed by world class research
and education. For more information, please visit www.cmit.ca.
About Spectacular Labs
Spectacular Labs is on a mission to transform the future of food
safety testing by significantly improving the accuracy, speed, and
affordability of pathogen detection. Founded in 2020 by scientists
out of the University of California, Berkeley, Spectacular Labs
offers a full menu of testing services through its ISO 17025
accredited laboratory and is developing a fully automated,
end-to-end, push-button testing platform that will allow customers
to detect pathogens with only one minute of operator hands-on time.
Early-stage investors include Astanor Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures,
Morado Ventures, and Xplorer Capital. For more information, please
visit www.spectacularlabs.com.
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