Starter cultures

Functionality:

• Stable quality of fermented milk products.
• Simplified manufacturing time and procedure due to omitting the stages of preparation of laboratory, passaged, and industrial starter cultures.
• Improved sanitary conditions of production operations.
• Reduced risk of contamination with viruses (bacteriophages) and foreign microorganisms.
• Decreased possibility of human errors.
• A greater variety of the end products.
• Increased efficiency of the finished goods manufacturing.

Benefits of our own production of AiBi® starter cultures:

• We have over 3,000 commercially valuable strains in our own culture collection
• Our production facility capacity is 7 thousand cultures (since 2018)
• Our production facilities comply with the GPM requirements
• The technological process is fully automated
• We possess highly sophisticated production equipment
• Our staff is highly specialized and competitive
• We have been working with bacterial cultures for over 10 years

Quality of AiBi® starter cultures is guaranteed due to:

• Zelenye Linii has ISO 9001 certification in quality management and HAССP certification in safety management
• The whole production cycle at Zelenye Linii is administered in compliance with the international quality management system standards ISO 22 000 and FSSC 22 000
• Annual FDA approval is obtainedIn-house microbiological R&D laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment
• AiBi® starter cultures contain only strains which are deposited in the Russian National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (VKPM) and which have been proved to be safe for humans and are not genetically modified
• The development and control processes are carried out by means of analytical equipment manufactured by Tecan (Switzerland), Bruker (Germany) and Unity Scientific (USA)