Roka Bioscience to Co-Present Industry Webinar - Game of Zones: A Practical Guide to Listeria Monitoring and Detection

WARREN, N.J., July 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Roka Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKA), a molecular diagnostics company focused on providing advanced testing solutions for the detection of foodborne pathogens will host and present a free, informative webinar titled "Game of Zones: A Practical Guide to Listeria Monitoring and Detection" with guest speaker Dr. Virginia Deibel from Covance.

The webcast topics will include:

• Demonstrating Listeria control through monitoring – a case study
• Fuzzy attributes of regulatory guidance documents
• Environmental Control Programs- what they are and what they are not
• When is Listeria reasonably likely to occur?
• Data demonstrating how new pathogen testing technology is surpassing the traditional culture

This free webcast will take place live on Thursday, August 3^rd at 2:00 PM EDT.

Dr. Virginia Deibel, Director of Microbiology at Covance, will be presenting "Taking the Fuzzy out of Logic" which will provide an example driven guide that can serve as a template for food processors in the development and execution of Listeria monitoring programs.

The webcast will also feature Dr. Evan Chaney, Director of Customer Applications and Microbiology at Roka Bioscience who will present "Trusting the Method", highlighting recent data that supports adoption of advanced, molecular diagnostics in food safety as they surpass the traditional culture based gold standards.

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About Roka Bioscience 
Roka Bioscience, Inc. is a molecular diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing advanced testing solutions for the food safety testing market. Our Atlas^® Detection Assays incorporate our advanced molecular technologies and are performed on our "sample-in, result out" Atlas System that automates all aspects of molecular diagnostic testing on a single, integrated platform. The Atlas System and Detection Assays are designed to provide our customers with accurate and rapid test results with reduced labor costs and improved laboratory efficiencies. For more information, visit https://www.rokabio.com.

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