Microbial contamination control and preservative efficacy testing are essential across consumer goods, food products, beverages, and ingredient manufacturing.
Traditional methods are often labor-intensive, slow, and dependent on plating or disruptive endpoint assays that can struggle with complex, opaque, or viscous product matrices. Alternative rapid methods may reduce time to results, but often require complex sample handling workflows, have limited sensitivity, or generate false results from non-viable microorganisms.
Symcel’s biocalorimetry technology detects metabolic heat with extreme sensitivity, enabling rapid and reliable growth-based microbial testing with results in hours. Up to 32 samples can be analyzed in parallel with automated continuous detection and clear positive/negative results at very low detection limits. The technology enables direct testing of finished products, raw materials, preservatives, antimicrobial ingredients, beverages, emulsions, creams, and other challenging matrices.
In this webinar, Dr. Kasper Kragh, Director of R&D Applications at Symcel, will present solutions for faster microbial quality control and preservative challenge testing directly in complex product matrices - helping reduce time to results, simplify workflows, and accelerate product development and release.
The session will include an introduction to the calScreener® and the new caloTrace®, Symcel’s next-generation microbial testing platform designed for increased flexibility, larger sample volumes, and scalable workflows for industrial microbiology applications.
Key takeaways:
- Introduction to biocalorimetry, calScreener®, and caloTrace® systems
- Automated rapid microbial detection directly in complex product matrices
- More efficient real-time preservative efficacy and antimicrobial challenge testing
- Application examples across cosmetics, consumer goods, beverages, food products, and ingredients
- Faster microbial insights with reduced hands-on time and simplified workflows
