Microbial contaminations are a persistent threat for food safety and it remains difficult to screen food quality onsite in an easy and rapid way. In this work, we report on a low-cost, sensitive, impedance-based biomimetic sensor for the detection of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria in both buffer fluids and, more importantly, in rinse water of an industrial food-processing machine. We have chosen E. coli because this bacterium is considered as a general indicator for hygiene standards and contaminations with other pathogens often go along with the presence of E. coli. [1,2] The identification of the underlying pathogen is time-consuming since cell culturing is always required, often in combination with costly DNA profiling, limiting the use of these techniques for routine screening of food samples. On top of the concerns regarding consumer health, food spoilage by bacteria and the resulting food loss are serious economic issues. [3] Therefore, there is a recent trend to develop low-cost and fast (bio)sensor systems to detect bacterial contaminations timely and directly on-site in the food production chain. Next to this, sensors also have been developed to monitor the metabolic activity of bacteria so that bacteria, if present, can be