3 questions for Emilie Pasero from Microbia Environnement

Every month, our adherents answer our questions and present their activity as part of the "3 questions to." This month, Emilie Pasero from Microbia Environnement answers us.

 What is the nature of your business?

Microbia Environnement is a young company specialized in marketing innovating biotechnological solutions to respond to health issues related to water quality.

Our solutions are based on faster and early detection of proliferation of toxic micro-organisms in water using highly-specialized bio-sensors. This breakthrough technology allows for obtaining results within 3 hours from receiving the water sample and to obtain proliferation trends over a given period of monitoring: it is a matter of "proliferation forecast". Today, we work in the form of service provision and we are simultaneously concentrating on developing a kit by 2021, that will allow shellfish farmers to perform such analyses within their nearby labs and to be autonomous on this monitoring operation.

For whom are your products / services intended?

We dedicate a major part of our business to the sector of shellfish farming, by offering researched services to help the professionals plan ahead for risks of toxic contamination (DSP, ASP, PSP) of shellfish that are directly related to proliferation of toxic micro algae, among which is the genus Dinophysis and Alexandrium

In what way are innovation and research important for your sector of business?

Innovation is essential to our business because our bio-sensors are part of the breakthrough technologies, that innovate and revolutionize acquisition of useful data in the sector of shellfish farming.

Research was of great importance during the phase of development of our bio-sensors, in order to optimize the tool on the field. This phase has also enabled us to dialogue with the producers and to adjust our services in order to respond better to their needs. It maintains its position in our business as we offer, among our services, development of custom-made bio-sensors.

And finally, research makes innovation possible, and innovation requires cooperation, and dialogues to materialize and to benefit the largest number, this is why we are glad to be part of the Aquimer Pole which allows us, we hope, to make great encounters relating to the current shellfish solutions.