Surface ATP Test Achieves AOAC-RI Certification

摘要

Hygiena, a global leader in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, have announced the AOAC Research Institute, one of the world's most recognisable product certification organisations, has issued its Performance Tested MethodSM certificate to the UltraSnap Surface ATP Test for identifying the possible presence of microbial contamination. As required for AOAC-RI certification, Hygiena used a third-party laboratory to test the results of UltraSnap on stainless steel surfaces in five food matrices, essentially reproducing a food processing facility. The test results showed very low limits of detection (down to 0.77 relative light units {RLU}, the measure generated by ATP-based luminometers). The results also showed that UltraSnap was able to detect ATP from surface soiled by food and beverages, at dilutions of 1:1,000 or lower. The UltraSnap was shown to be highly selective for ATP, stable and consistent, and to have no statistically significant variability.