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will show us exactly what it does or how it is a laboratory of the future, not a
laboratory of microbiology, yes, please. Okay, the laboratory of the future now in the present, we can already have it, it represents the seal that can
arrive to have the company to be able to guarantee, yes, guarantee the products and
what consumers eat, they do not really go to get sick. So, really a laboratory
is composed of several types of processes for me to be able to make a microbiological process to
this apple, for example, I have to split it and make a preparation of the sample, yes, so for
that we have, let's say, this diversity of teams, here there are three of the many others that
can be used, where I can prepare means of cultivation, sterilize them with a total
traceability, it tells me how many grams I used, then this means of cultivation that can be, for
example, a diluent that is normally used in the microbiological analysis, I am going to put it
in this balance, which is also a dispenser of diluent and then I have to homogenize it. Before
continuing, Silvia, I would like to tell you that a laboratory normally, when it does not have
automated teams, it can take between seven and ten days to deliver a result, either internal
and many times worse when it is external, yes, you have to count the time of the transport of the
sample. So, really the laboratory of the future, what comes to mind is, mainly,
speed, because I can introduce this apple to the laboratory and in 24 hours know if it has
microorganisms, emergence, pathogens such as salmonella or any other that requires the
rules of each country. So, from the 24 hours I can start to have results, but in addition,
much more traceable, I am going to talk a little more about that at the end, I am going to continue
giving you the tour. Please. There is another part and a very important process within the
laboratory is that it is the pathogen area. We all know salmonella, E. colio 157,
campylobacter, listeria, all those microorganisms that supply them so much to the companies
because they can damage their image. Well, here is an automated team that can arrive
to do test of salmonella, for example, in 19 hours and with a new technology that is
of bacteriophages. Now, there is another part, which is another very important process within
the microbiology area, which is the process of high-quality microorganisms such as
coligenetics, coliforms, aerobics, staphylococcus aureus, well, there is a great diversity.
That routine sometimes is very complicated. It is one of the ones that take longer inside
the laboratory because they have to, let's see, many people processing many delusions,
many boxes, many things to do. Of course, that is part of the sample plan. In the same
way as production often increases, that sometimes complicates and makes bottle necklaces in
the laboratory. So, if the demand for samples increases, I have to do more personnel, more
boxes, more mesons, enlarge the laboratory, even buy, sometimes incubators, nevers, etc.
So, there is an automated team that, through some simple cards that would already be placed,
let's say, the boxes of Petri and, well, the apple here, and this, which is where the
crop is, which is much easier, I simply put my sample after seeing it diluted and
having homogenized it, yes, I put it inside the, inside the, inside the, inside the bottles
with the cards, and I simply introduce it in a jiffy that, empty-handed, it will fill
the card completely, and additionally, I will do the reading in another station, totally
automated, that is, I do not need to be counting the columns, and I am having results, also
from the 22 hours, so, of course, even more complement, so that both pathogens come out
as indicators at the same time. Now, there is another very important part, and it is that
when I find a salmonella, a listeria, I have to confirm it, yes, that is what all
the rules say with any method of screening. So, if I find a salmonella there, what I
will need to know is what it generates and what it species, for production managers to
know what name and surname it has that salmonella, a tiffy for tiffy, so what I am going to do
is that I am going to take one of that protocol that I finished there, and I am going to take
it to this team, a representative colony of what came out there, and this team will
detect us and will tell us in, from the two hours of having made the inoculum, what type
of microorganism is the one that I have there, okay? So, let's say that up to here, we
would have covered everything that does any type of laboratory, both internal and external,
from beginning to end, totally automated, yes? There is another thing, and it is another process,
let's say, of certain types of production companies, like UHT, for example, Hugo's UHT,
exact industrial processes that use UHT, or that need sterility tests, there we could
see recounts, look at the bakers here, in this type of products, there can be nothing,
so for that we get, you have an offer from where there are cytometry teams, flow or
colorimetry that cut that process a lot, microbiological, that at some point the
traditional part lasts 14 days, with these teams we can also have, from the 24 hours,
the results, okay? So, imagine the costs that the processes are now, the logistics part,
that is, they stop paying so much for gas, because they can release much faster, two
very important things that the laboratory must have in the future is a very important work flow
that guarantees that as these samples in production are increasing, the laboratory
has to know how to respond to that demand, so many times you don't just have to have
automated teams, you have to be very smart in the area of how to optimize the work flow,
so that is very important, there is another thing that is especially for the area of the
auditors, all laboratories have to have auditors to be certified and guarantee that what they
are saying and doing with all these teams really puts that real seal and reliable that
we were able to get a product that is not going to get sick. If they ask me for a certificate
for phytosanitary, if they ask me for a laboratory certificate for a, I don't know, for a free
sale card, it is free sale and it has no problem. So, for that, let's say we have all the
validations that it has, it must have international validations recognized, additionally there
is a part that the laboratories have to do a little complicated, which is monitoring the
record of the temperature all the time and they have to do it manually, the analyst has to
go and reflect on a paper, so now there are sensors that I can put in all the areas of
incubation, of refrigeration, of the same, for example, where the raw materials are stored,
the trucks, of course, and then there are sensors that inalienably can send me a
centralized information to a single computer and can alert me to my smartphone, for example.
And finally, to finish, the laboratory of the future also needs to be connected to
an information system. Today there are many ERPs that have the companies, but there are
special ones for the laboratories and the advantage of having all these teams is that
all these teams can be connected to SLIMS. So, the analysts or the people who work there
will not have to be digitizing in each station that...
It is in line with the information, let's say, you do not have to be digitizing each
station. Exactly, information is totally available.
So, to summarize all this laboratory of the future, first it generates quick...
It is already available, but it is quick to make decisions with confidence and additional
having economic savings in the areas of production and logistics. Total traceability for the moment
of an auditory is to be able to have a fully automated laboratory because my clients in
Europe or in the United States can be totally confident. And it is precision, the reduction
of the margin of error or anything else. Well, I thank you very much, Diana Sanchez.
You have already seen what we have been talking about, you have seen what is the laboratory
of the future that is already available at that time and what you can access. Thank you very
much, I would only ask you to give us some data on where you can locate for the people
who are not seeing us. Well, we have, as Lejo said, several subsidiaries,
but you can enter the web page www.biomerieux.com. Very well, thank you very much, this was precisely
a bit of showing you what a laboratory of the future is that is already available.
Muchísimas gracias, estamos en Lima, Perú, en el medio del simposium de Inocuidad Alimentaria.
Muchas gracias por acompañarnos, hasta pronto.
