Food Safety Microbiology Intern

Position Summary

As a Food Safety Microbiology Intern , you will contribute to experimental design, method development, and validation activities supporting food safety and process innovation. Your work will span lab protocols, microbial behavior studies, and thermal inactivation testing.

A Day in the Life of a Food Safety Microbiology Intern

Support R&D experiments and protocols for method development, validation, and technical assistance

• Assist in developing lab procedures for process and product validation
• Help define and verify surrogate strain testing procedures
• Investigate qualification of new surrogates for novel process technologies
• Contribute to refining validation tools and protocols
• Help create training materials

Study bacterial growth and nitrate-to-nitrite reduction in non-dairy solutions

Assist with thermal inactivation studies

What will make you successful

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At Nestlé Research and Development in Konolfingen near Bern / Switzerland, we develop for Nestlé worldwide, new products, processes and packaging concepts for a broad range of products of our Nutrition, Dairy, Health Science and Coffee businesses. In addition, we also provide technical assistance to our factories.