LuminaReady-to-eat
Sliced today. Confirmed next week.
Past the lethality step, product is exposed on every surface it touches until it is packed. A confirmed Listeria result takes four to six days at FSIS's lab. Lumina is the record that closes that gap: live today for the swab results, checks and issues on your floor, with a line-side sensor in build.
The gap
Between swabs, the surfaces of a running line are effectively dark.
An environmental monitoring program samples by design: so many sites a shift, drawn to a plan, cultured in-house or at a contract lab. Between draws, it cannot see.
After the kill step the exposure is specific: slicers, peelers, portioners, conveyors and the surfaces beside them, and the hollow rollers, belt splices, drains and condensate where Listeria settles in. A swab describes one spot on one surface at one moment, and the result comes back days after that moment has passed.
The cost lands as margin before it is ever an incident: product on hold where your plan or an FSIS sample requires it, a line torn down for intensified sanitation over a positive that is days old, and sanitation run heavy because nobody can see whether it needs to be. From early 2027, FSIS inspectors also swab the surfaces around every sample of post-lethality exposed product.
Those swabs are FSIS's. An FDA-regulated plant runs its environmental monitoring under 21 CFR 117.165, and the gap between samples is the same.
4–6 days
FSIS laboratory, collection to a confirmed Listeria result (MLG Appendix 3.08).
2027
From early 2027, FSIS inspectors take two food-contact and two non-food-contact swabs with every sample of post-lethality exposed product (FSIS Constituent Update, September 18, 2026).
$36.6M
One Listeria recall at one processor: $21.0M in returns, $7.4M in write-offs, $6.5M in plant shutdown, $1.7M in logistics (TreeHouse Foods 10-K).
Live today
The record of a ready-to-eat plant, before a sensor is mounted.
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Swab results, pinned where they were taken
Lab reports parsed into structured results, matched to the sample and pinned to the site it came from, with that site's history beside it. A positive files an issue by itself, with an owner and a due date.
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The follow-up swabs, on the clock
The vector swabs after a positive, set as tasks against the sites around it and linked to the issue they came from: assigned, scheduled and closed in the record, so the next round is never a reminder in someone's inbox.
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Sanitation and pre-op checks as forms
Pre-op inspections, ATP readings and sanitizer concentrations filled where the work happens, each reading against its range. A failed check raises an issue in one step.
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Your plan, cited
Your food safety plan, Listeria control program, SSOPs, and 9 CFR 430, 416 and 417, or 21 CFR 117 for FDA-regulated plants, in the Library. Ask answers only from them, cites the passage, and says so when they cannot support an answer.
Live on the web and in the mobile app (iOS and Android), offline included. Not yet deployed at a plant. We're looking for the design partners who will run it first.
In build
A sensor for the surfaces between your samples.
Lumina Detect is a line-side sensor, lab-demonstrated and in build, designed to read pathogen-risk signatures off a surface in milliseconds and tell your program where the next swab should go.
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Post-lethality surfaces
Zone 1 and the Zone 2 surfaces beside it, after the kill step: chill, slice, portion, fill. Designed to mount on its own bracket beside the line, with no PLC integration.
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Pre-operational inspection
Designed to give the pre-op inspection a reading of the surfaces a flashlight misses, and to flag one that did not come clean. The startup call stays with QA.
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Sites that keep coming back
A harborage site shows itself as a spot that reads elevated shift after shift, on the surfaces the sensor can see. Designed to surface that pattern early, pinned to the spot on the floor plan. Harborage inside equipment stays a job for the swab.
A surface measurement: food-contact and adjacent surfaces, not the inside of the product, read as risk signatures at colony scale, not single cells. Listeria is in active development and in the validation plan. Confirmatory testing stays the record of your program, and a sensor flag is never a release criterion. See how the sensor works →
Design partners
Bring one post-lethality line, its swab plan and the person who owns them. We will build the record around them.
No fee during the pilot, and converting is your decision on the measured result. The post-pilot price is in writing before it starts.