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Twelve Years Hunting Invisible Risks
Elena founded Culinova's microbiology bench after a decade in dairy and ready-meal safety, including three years leading environmental monitoring for a national chilled-food producer. She has seen every way a clean-looking factory can harbour a problem — and built our screening workflow to find each one.
What Elena leads
- — Pathogen screening: Salmonella, Listeria and STEC programs
- — Shelf-life microbiology for chilled and ambient products
- — The field sampling team and chain-of-custody standards
- — Environmental monitoring plans for client factories
Credentials
PhD in Food Microbiology, guest lecturer in food safety, and co-author of our open shelf-life dataset. Elena still plates every new starter culture herself — "calibration for humans," she calls it.
Work with Elena
Pathogen concerns, shelf-life questions or a factory that needs monitoring — start with a conversation.