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CONCLUSIONS
The cost of genome sequencing has been greatly scaled
down, making genome-based technologies more affordable
for broad adoption for strategic purposes as well as for
routine monitoring. Food production facilities can utilize
this option for 'smart sampling' as an investigative tool for
pathogen detection, source tracking, microbial profiling,
determining the fate of spoilage and pathogen profiling
during food processing, pre-op, post sanitization, and

general facility surveillance activities. Adopting these
methods will allow the food processing facility to employ
corrective actions to control/eliminate the pathogen or
spoilage organisms by giving greater visibility to its pathway
into the facility and its prevalence in the sample(s) or in
niches. Implementing 'smart sampling' could potentially
avoid a product recall or prevent a regulatory finding and
allow manufacturers to avoid incurring heavy product losses
and their impact on business and brands.

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