Rising Food Safety Concerns Boosting Microbial Identification Products Sales

The food and beverage industry is increasingly adopting microbial identification products, due to the growing concerns regarding food safety. Food and beverage companies use these products to detect unwanted microorganisms and prevent the contamination of food items. Regular detection of microorganisms is required in food products, as any alteration in storage temperature, pH value, water activity, relative humidity, and gas composition of storage units leads to the growth of microbes in these items. The growth of microbes results in food spoilage and food poisoning, which can be avoided by the use of microbial identification products.

Additionally, microbial identification solutions are also used by hospitals and other healthcare facilities to detect infectious diseases, such as measles, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis, in patients. These diseases are primarily caused by pathogenic microorganisms like viruses and bacteria. Medical professionals are largely adopting such products to offer better patient care, due to their ability to offer quick results. The increasing incidence of such diseases will accelerate the microbial identification market at a CAGR of 6.0% during 2016–2022. The market stood at $0.95 billion in 2015 and it is projected to reach $1.4 billion by 2022.

In recent years, microbial identification product manufacturers have focused on technological advancements in the microbial identification products to increase accuracy of identification process. Moreover, with advanced methods, the manufacturers aim to offer quicker results than traditional methods. These methods offer high throughput time and are cost effective. For instance, MALDI-TOF method is available at a low cost, requires minimal consumables, and offers faster results. Such novel methods are being developed by BioMerieux SA, Bruker Corporation, Shimadzu Corporation, Biolog Inc., Siemens AG, Charles River Laboratories Inc., Danaher Corporation, Midi Inc., and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

The aforementioned companies provide consumables, services, and instruments and software to government environmental agencies, hospitals, blood banks, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, research laboratories, and food, waters, and beverage manufacturers. These end users mostly use consumables, such as plates and media and reagents and kits, to identify microbes in the subject under consideration. Whereas, instruments and software, such as automated microbial identification systems, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), mass spectrometers, high-power microscopes, microarrays, polystainers, and flow cytometers, will be adopted at the highest rate, in the coming years.

Currently, the market players and end users are shifting their focus from conventional phenotypic method to genotypic identification method, as the latter is more reliable and accurate because it is based on nucleic acid analysis. The genotypic method is directed toward deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules for bacterial identification and classification. Species-specific typing and strain-specific typing are the two types of the genotypic microbial identification method being deployed by several end-users, worldwide.

Microbial Identification Market Report, 2030

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According to P&S Intelligence, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) microbial identification market will advance at the highest rate in the coming years, globally, due to the surging use of microbial identification products in Japan, India, and China. These products are widely adopted in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, blood banks, and research institutes of the region. Among APAC nations, Japan is expected to consume the highest volume of such products in the coming years.

Thus, the surging concerns regarding food safety and the increasing incidence of infectious diseases will augment the usage of microbial identification products in the coming years.

SOURCE: P&S Intelligence