Highly effective and affordable package for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) bioluminescence hygiene monitoring enable test results to be available within a few seconds
Technology developments in ATP bioluminescence have enabled Hygiena International to introduce its Systemsure II monitoring system.
This palm-sized instrument is now more compact and robust, and claimed to be the first self-calibrating luminometer that is designed to be virtually maintenance-free.
The Ultrasnap sampling devices used with Systemsure II are also said to be more precise, collectively providing a highly effective and affordable package for ATP hygiene monitoring, with test results available within a few seconds.
The equipment is suitable for wide ranging applications and is ideal for operating personnel and inspectors throughout the food and drinks production, processing and preparation industries, for testing water quality or the effectiveness of cleaning or sanitation procedures and programmes.
There are also requirements within hospitals, catering and retail outlets as well as vending, dairy and brewing.
Applications also occur in cosmetics manufacture as well as the clean water utilities and water treatment plants for cooling towers, de-humidifiers and water coolers etc.
ATP is the universal energy molecule adenosine triphosphate found in all animal, plant, bacterial, yeast and mould cells.
It occurs in large amounts in food residue, with lower quantities in microbial contamination.
After appropriate cleaning, however, all sources of ATP should be significantly reduced.
It is important with any food related operation that contact surfaces are first tested to ensure safe production conditions and prevent batch contamination.
Assessing the cleanliness of surfaces prior to production, with immediate corrective action where required, extends product shelf-life, prevents cross-contamination or product recalls and increases production efficiency and overall profitability.
Ultrasnap is a user friendly ATP sampling device which contains a unique liquid-stable reagent providing better accuracy, longer-lasting signal strength and more reproducible results.
The device contains a swab with premoistened extractant used to swab a 10cm square test area.
An easy to activate snap-valve introduces the reagent prior to insertion of the device into the Systemsure II instrument for measurement, with levels down to one femtemole of ATP being detected.
The Systemsure II unit is self-calibrating and can handle up to 100 programmable test locations with simple menu driven keypad operation.
Upper and lower threshold levels can be individually set with unambiguous pass/fail indications for each test sample.
Test results are available within seconds and up to 500 results can be stored with optional data download and analysis also available with Datasure II software.
