PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECTS
Nutrition & Health
Nutrition & Health : major challenges for public health
Preventing sanitary risk by improving the safety and quality of agri-food products and their
environment is today at the heart of public health concerns in many countries.
With concentrated populations, the globalization of trade, an increased sensitivity of public
opinion and strengthened regulations, this tendency will only increase.
In addition to the business aspects, mastery of the quality control procedures of the entire
food chain, from raw materials to finished product, through all stages of industrial production
to the consumer, presents major public health challenges.
Today, food contamination is responsible for 1.8 million deaths per year and causes 2 billion cases
of disease worldwide. (source WHO)
Institut Mérieux: a player in prevention of world health risks
Preventing infectious or toxicological risks linked to food and providing a high level of
safety and quality for these products form one of the priorities of Institut Mérieux.
Silliker and bioMérieux, in particular with its industrial microbiology activities,
are the Group's backbone in the area of prevention of sanitary risks. Both are world leaders.
Silliker provides services to agri-food and food service companies, and distributors:
biological and chemical analyses, consulting and advising and training.
bioMérieux develops, produces and distributes systems and reagents for in
vitro diagnosis used by monitoring laboratories for microbiological quality control in agri-food,
pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
Through these two companies, Institut Mérieux thus provides overlapping
expertise to its partners: analyses according to the strictest international quality standards,
auditing, consulting, advising, products for industrial microbiological control. More than 3,000 people
are thus mobilized throughout the world for sanitary risk prevention.