Clear Labs, the world’s first food analytics platform for retailers and manufacturers, today released a comprehensive Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) test. The new test allows the food industry to identify specific pathogen strains, monitor for pathogen-related problems in the food supply, and trace outbreaks.
The new test pairs WGS technology with Clear Labs’ proprietary analytics pipeline to enable retailers and manufacturers to understand how different pathogen and probiotic strains are related to one another, how they are connected evolutionarily, where they come from geographically, and with which food groups they are associated. At a more granular level, the test is also capable of matching pathogen strains with ingredients, allowing customers to correlate the strain of bacteria with specific food ingredients and suppliers.