It is with great sadness that we were informed of the death of our colleague Brigitte Carpentier-Cerf on October 6, 2023. 

She was a great scientist in food microbiology, internationally recognised for her work on the microbial persistence of pathogenic bacteria and biofilms in agro-food environments. Brigitte had worked at Anses for over thirty years and had been involved in EURL Lm activities from the outset, where she had led the work of the  working group in charge of the drafting of the 1st version of the “EURL Lm Technical Guidance Document on sampling the food processing area and equipment for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes”.

Brigitte was a nice person, infinitely kind to colleagues and everyone she met, in particular the member of the NRLs Lm network. We miss her enormously, and her memory will remain engraved in our working community.