Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent NGS platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced that its flagship product, Clear Safety, has received AOAC Performance Tested Methods certification for genus Listeria and Listeria monocytogenes testing, license number #091901. Clear Safety is also AOAC Performance Tested for Salmonella enterica testing, having received AOAC certification in 2018.

The AOAC test found that Clear Safety provides qualitative detection of Listeria. In inclusivity and exclusivity evaluations to test the sensitivity and specificity of the Clear Safety Method, the platform performed as well or better than the relevant methods from FDA’s Bacterial Analytical Manual and FSIS’s Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook.