Bactiscan Fluorescence Image Guided Surface Bacteria Detection
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Bactiscan Fluorescence Image Guided Surface Bacteria Detection
Bactiscan fluorescence guided detection of surface bacteria, biofilm, and mold provides real-time guidance for environmental monitoring, infection prevention, and control in various production facilities and industries.
Generally, the other surface sampling and bacteria detection techniques are random and feel like a leap into the dark. Fluorescence imaging is like a GPS for surface bacterial contaminants and bacterial biofilms, providing real-time guidance and accurate information during sampling, cleaning, and sanitation of surfaces.
Bactiscan is able to detect bacteria and biofilms from species typical of pathogens and other target microorganisms present in a multitude of environments from across many industries, including food, medical, pharmaceutical companies, hotel, public transport, airline, cruise ship, water, cannabis and veterinary areas.
Unlike other methods, Bactiscan fluorescence-guided imaging is simple, safe, and extremely environmentally friendly, because it scans an entire surface and get immediate result without using harmful dyes, chemical gels, or gases.
It provides immediate results so within a short time the remediation job can be implemented, therefore more cost effective than other method for large surface areas bacterial detection.
While using the Bactiscan, the user should wear adequate eye protective glasses or even clear safety glasses. This is unlike other UV torch that require high intensity LED or UV eye protective glasses.
Bactiscan Works To Immediately Detect Bacteria And Biofilms On Surfaces
Bactiscan clearly indicates the presence of microorganisms at low and high levels of contamination, allowing easy identification of areas in which cleaning had not been effective
Is a bacteria and biofilm detection scanner that uses an alternating wave of UV light to detect bacterial contaminants on surfaces that are often missed when using white light or UV lamps.
It is the leading surface microbial detection and preventative control technology for the liquid food processing, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and medical industries. It makes it easier for manufacturers to comply with good manufacturing practices(GMP) by auditing and eliminating microbial contamination risks.
Bacteria attach themselves to surfaces, and as they grow they produce a protective jelly-like coating. This can be transformed into a glass like surface caused by continuous washing and ineffective cleaning agents , resulting in chemical hardening of the protective coating.
Under the protective coat of the biofilm, these bacteria can multiply at an incredibly high rate, despite routine cleaning with detergents and biocides.
These surfaces may appear clean under standard white light as the biofilm is invisible to the human eye, or UV lamps. But, when these areas are viewed with a Bactiscan, you can clearly see the green glow of the bacteria proteins fluorescing before your eyes.
Using Bactiscan biofilm detection lamp, you can visualize biofilms in real-time and implement effective biofilm mitigations then evaluate the effectiveness of your cleaning protocols.
Bactiscan Helps Eliminate Risk Exposure Caused By Bacteria Contaminants
A fundamental principle of infection prevention and control (ICP) in dairy, BioPharma, food production and healthcare settings is environmental cleaning.
Using Bactiscan, contaminants, such as biofilms, molds, and bacteria (salmonella and E.coli), can be easily identified and located, enabling remediation to be done more efficiently and at a lower cost.
In addition, Bactiscan™ enables you to illuminate the entire surface and get an immediate result, so within seconds you can detect contamination that would take hours with other technologies.
It is superior to other methods of large surface biofilm detection and eradication monitoring, because it provides immediate result to make the remediation job effective.
Detection of Large Surface Area Bacterial Contaminants
See What You Have Been Missing
See the difference between what is seen when using standard white light to view surfaces compared to what can be seen using Bactiscan’s fluorescent imaging.
The Bactiscan is effective in detecting bacteria on surfaces. You can see biofilm in the form of green glow of bacteria proteins fluorescing before your eyes, enabling you to immediately isolate biofilms.
Bactiscan illuminates an entire surface to detect bacteria, biofilm, and mold that are often undetectable using other methods such as white light and standard UV lamps.
Unlike other methods and UV lamps, Bactiscan works on the fringe of the UV spectrum by emitting a high-intensity, wave-alternating UV light that enables operators to scan large surface areas, providing results in seconds, whereas other methods could take hours.
The Bactiscan merges four separate wavelengths which bounce off the protein shells, also known as the S-layer, of the bacteria or biofilm to produce a turquoise-green glow, allowing immediate, easy detection of any potential bacteria reservoirs and contamination sites.
This innovative bacteria detection UV light accurately detects the location of bacteria, biofilm and mold, and helps to guide sampling for rapid pathogen identification, and mitigation, to break the contamination chain.
Independent evaluation has established that the Bactiscan is more effective than other UV bacteria detection torch, and other methods for large surface contamination detections.
Surface Bacteria and Biofilm Imaging Device
Surface Bacteria and Biofilm Imaging Device
Bactiscan Delivers Certainty In Just Minutes
The Bactiscan allows the user to quickly, safely and easily visualize bacteria, biofilm and mold on surfaces.
Simple
Handheld, portable, just point, scan to detect bacteria and biofilm on surfaces.
Simple
Handheld, portable, just point scan to detect bacteria and biofilm on surfaces.
Precise
Allows for targeted sampling and cleaning by seeing exactly where fluorescent bacteria are located.
Cost-Effective
Perform unlimited number of scans without consumables and at no additional cost.
Fluorescence Guided Imaging Device
A turquoise-green fluorescence on surfaces indicates the presence of bacteria, biofilm or mold.
Fast
Instantly visualize and reveals location of potentially harmful levels of bacteria.
Efficient
Immediately see where to sample, and clean with the guidance of fluorescence imaging.
Eco-Friendly
Does not use any consumables, harmful dyes, gels, chemicals or gases.
Real-time Fluorescence Image Guided Decisions Along Cleaning Pathways
Bactiscan provides real-time visualization of fluorescing bacteria, biofilm, and mold on surfaces but not seen with white light.
Fluorescence imaging illuminates the entire surface and identifies the exact location of surface bacteria, biofilm, and mold. Thus, enabling direct sampling of the turquoise fluorescence areas, indicative of surface bacterial and bacterial biofilms, to help break the contamination chain.
Targeting sampling to areas positive for bacteria fluorescence improves the sample recovery of pathogens by sampling areas with true-positive bacterial growth, thus increasing accuracy and reducing overall sampling costs.
Fluorescence images demonstrate where bacteria have been left behind after cleaning. In addition, it helps to isolate biofilms immediately and select effective cleaning agents and methods to protect health and safety.
Visual documentation of the absence of fluorescing bacteria on previously cleaned surfaces confirms the efficacy of your cleaning agents and methods; thus, Fluorescence image guidance helps identify the potential root cause for inadequate cleaning or contaminations.
In addition, it provides validation of the effectiveness of cleaning standards of operations and identifies environmental contamination hazards and risks.
Based in Expertise
Bactiscan is able to detect bacteria and biofilms from species typical of pathogens and other target microorganisms present in a multitude of environments from across many industry areas including food, medical, pharmaceutical, hotel, public transport, airline, cruise ship, water, cannabis and veterinary areas.
Bactiscan Fluorescence Guided Cleaning Monitoring System
Bactiscan guided environmental monitoring provides real-time observations, measurements of the execution of Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs), to detect procedure failures so that they are corrected before production begins.
As seen in the image above, Bactiscan can easily identify contamination on stainless steel surfaces, that is not visible with white light.
This cost effective approach to preventative control and environmental monitoring has been proven effective, through continuous use by some of the world’s largest food production, dairy, brewery and pharmaceutical companies.
Bactiscan Immediately Visualize Bacteria, Biofilm, And Mold, That Is Undetectable By Other Technologies
Bactiscan Sets The Standard In Fluorescence Guided Surface Bacteria Detection
Using the Bactiscan, the presence of bacteria or biofilms is visually evident as a turquoise/green fluorescence on the surfaces, providing immediate results so the remediation job can be quickly implemented.
Bactiscan is a bacteria and biofilm detection scanner that uses an alternating wave of UV light to detect bacterial contaminants on surfaces that are often missed when using white light or UV lamps.
It clearly visualize the presence of surface contamination, allowing easy identification of areas in which cleaning has not been effective
It is the leading surface microbial detection and preventative control technology for the liquid food processing, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and medical industries. It makes it easier for manufacturers to comply with good manufacturing practices(GMP) by auditing and eliminating microbial contamination risks.
Bactiscan Sets The Standard In Fluorescence Guided Surface Biofilm Detection
Bacteria attach themselves to surfaces, and as they grow they produce a protective jelly-like coating. This can be transformed into a glass like surface caused by continuous washing and ineffective cleaning agents , resulting in chemical hardening of the protective coating.
Under the protective coat of the biofilm, these bacteria can multiply at an incredibly high rate, despite routine cleaning with detergents and biocides.
These surfaces may appear clean under standard white light as the biofilm is invisible to the human eye, or UV lamps. But, when these areas are viewed with a Bactiscan, you can clearly see the green glow of the bacteria proteins fluorescing before your eyes.
Using Bactiscan biofilm detection lamp, you can visualize biofilms in real-time and implement effective biofilm mitigations then evaluate the effectiveness of your cleaning protocols.
Bactiscan Cleaning Verification System
Health care, as well as other industries, focus on cleaning high touchpoints in their effort to prevent and control the transmission of harmful pathogens.
Though high touch point cleaning is based on sound principles, this approach invariably ignores other sites of contamination that can transmit pathogens to vulnerable patients.
Bactiscan’s environmentally friendly UV lamps illuminate beyond high touchpoints and quickly identifies ALL areas harboring bacterial contaminants, thus providing accurate audits of your healthcare facility to determine whether it is clean and compliant with regulatory standards.
Bactiscan can verify that your cleaning staff is properly cleaning contact points and other surfaces, by providing an additional expert eye that will make sure they are not missing anything.
It is a portable ultraviolet bacteria detection device that is superior to white light, adenosine triphosphate
This establishes a higher standard of “real clean” instead of just “visual clean”, therefore it is not “real clean” until it is “Bactiscan Clean”.
Bactiscan Cleaning Validation System
Cleaning processes, which are intended to mitigate a food safety risk, should be validated to ensure they will deliver the desired results in the future.
Cleaning validation determines whether a Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) when followed, can deliver the established and mutually agreed upon success criteria in the future.
Incorporating the Bactiscan into your cleaning validation program can ensure the repeatability of your SSOP and the predictability of the cleaning outcome.
The Bactiscan ensures that your cleaning validation is based on accurate and reliable technology, not individual performance.
Bactiscan Validates Disinfectants Efficacy
Bactiscan environment monitoring has been proven to be a valuable and well-established method for assessing post-sanitation surface hygiene, however it cannot completely replace traditional microbiology tests to evaluate the efficacy of disinfection.
Conventional microbial or molecular tests must be conducted to assess disinfectants efficacy. These tests count the number of colony-forming units on a small surface area to be examined.
Bactiscan guided swabbing for microbial testing can increase the accuracy of both microbial swab and molecular sampling of surfaces for microbial contamination.
Bactiscan Image-Guided Swabbing(BIGS)
The Bactiscan is used for real-time fluorescent imaging of surfaces to visualize bacteria and biofilm in and around the critical/vulnerable sites. In addition, it guides surface sampling to identify and quantify bacterial contamination.
Bactiscan image-guided sampling(BIGS) more accurately identifies the presence of bacterial or biofilms on surfaces compared with standard random swabbing. In addition, BIGS maximizes the recovered bacterial load compared to random or blind swabbing.
The Bactiscan system improves the performance of culture-based methods, qPCR and ATP assays, DNA sequencing, high-throughput sequencing, and microarray analyses by increasing the efficiency and yield of surface bacteria sampling, when using swabs.
Furthermore, when used as a part of standard SSOPs, BIGS is simple and offers a more accurate sampling advantage over conventional random swabbing. BIGS will also improve the thoroughness of surface sampling and the subsequent effectiveness of the remediation job.
Bactiscan As An Alternative To ATP Monitoring
SIDE BY SIDE METHOD COMPARISON
Methods
Bactiscan Monitoring
ATP Monitoring
Microbiology Testing
Blacklight
Visual Inspection
EASE OF USE
Can it be used by any level user?
OBJECTIVE
Does it measure without bias?
SPECIFIC
Does the method detect microbiological matter?
QUANTITATIVE
Are results numeric and measurable?
QUALITATIVE
Can results be categorized as Pass/Fail?
TIMELINESS
Does the method minimize time investment?
LOW COST
Are supplies and other costs affordable?
TRAINING TOOL
Is the data collected prwerful for cleaning?
MANAGEMENT TOOL
Is the data collected powerful for managers?
FRAUD-PROOF
Are results protected from manipulation?
SOFTWARE ANALYSIS
Does the product come with software?
GRAND TOTTAL
Bactiscan Preventative Control Verifies ATP Validated Cleaning Protocols
The Bactiscan is well established as a very effective preventive control technology in food safety and other industries.
Since cleaning that reduces food safety risks is considered a preventive control, these ATP validated cleaning processes need to be verified.
Bactiscan enables frequent formal verification of ATP validated cleaning processes to ensure and document that the preventive control is still working as designed.
Bactiscan Is The Perfect Prelude To ATP Testing
The surface adenosine triphosphate (ATP) bioluminescence assay is an established scientific method for assessing surface cleanliness. However, it is not foolproof for identifying sources due to the small size of the actual sample point compared to the larger overall work surface. In addition, ATP monitoring for cleaning is random, hence has a high false-negative rate.
Bactiscan fluorescence-guided imaging can illuminate large surface areas using special wavelengths on the UV spectrum to identify surface pathogens that are often undetectable using other methods.
In addition, Bactiscan guided ATP bioluminescence tests, can improve environmental swabbing detection accuracy by locating the exact area of microbial contamination for testing, thus making ATP testing more cost effective.
Healthcare Solutions
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are the most common adverse outcomes associated with medical care by increasing mortality and morbidity and prolong hospital stays.
The contamination of surfaces, particularly those frequently touched, harbor pathogens and facilitate their transmission to patients.
There are many high-touch surfaces in the patient care environment, including bed rails, tables, switches, buttons, and frequently used mobile equipment. Clinical studies have demonstrated that improved cleaning significantly reduces cross-contamination from these surfaces.
Healthcare hygiene, therefore, requires a comprehensive approach that combines different strategies with targeted, risk-based approaches so that the risk of HAI is reduced for the patient.
Such a system includes hand hygiene and environmental cleaning and disinfection of surfaces and clinical equipment.
Bactiscan plays a crucial role in monitoring the cleaning and disinfection of environmental areas, including basic clinical risk assessment, choosing appropriate disinfectants and cleaning equipment, describing uniform cleaning processes, and addressing training issues.
In addition, many studies have have associated biofilms as the source of contamination in over 80% of nosocomial infection. Bactiscan can immediately isolate biofilms, guide sampling, cleaning, and decontamination to make the remediation job
Food Safety Solutions
More than ever, food manufacturers are focusing on the cleanliness of their facilities and ensuring they have a sanitary working environment.
Even if a surface appears clean, that doesn’t necessarily indicate that it is. This is because not all contaminants and debris are visible to the naked eye. In addition, the food product will be contacting this surface, so it is crucial to mitigate the risk of product contamination from that site.
Using the Bactiscan, food processors can determine the effectiveness of cleaning process, as it is the fastest and most reliable way of environmental pathogen detection.
It enables food processors to illuminate an entire surface and immediately isolate biofilms, mold and bacteria such as salmonella and E.coli and many other contaminants .
It can aid food processors to easily identify and monitor critical control points in the food production chain that are potential reservoirs for bacterial growth caused by ineffective, hence increasing the risk for product contamination.
Food Service Solutions
Media scrutiny and public awareness of food safety are on the rise; thus, a single incident of food-borne illness, poor quality, or an exposé of poor facility hygiene at a single franchise location could have a disastrous effect on a brand. Therefore, food quality and safety need to be strictly managed from the supplier to the restaurant.
For years, food processors have relied on Bactiscan to rapidly verify the cleanliness of the surfaces of food handling equipment and help prevent food safety and quality issues. Now restaurants are depending on Bactiscan to do the same, by providing excellent protection against food-borne illnesses.
It provides immediate results to help franchise owners, regional auditors, and restaurant managers verify and monitor food-safety sanitation processes to ensure they are effectively implemented.
Regional auditors can quickly verify that franchise locations and commissaries uphold the highest facility hygiene levels. In addition, Bactiscan environmental contamination monitoring gives results on-demand, anywhere.
Rapid illumination of surfaces for bacteria, mold or biofilm can detect microbiology contamination before a devastating outbreak happens and can correct your cleaning procedures to prevent future issues.
The Bactiscan helps prevent contamination to the greatest extent possible by identifying where on surfaces microbes are located, so that they can be effectively eradicated to break the contamination chain.
In addition, the Bactiscan is cost effective and easy to use, simplifying implementation and minimizing team member training.
Hospitality Solutions
Incomplete cleaning that leaves residual bacteria on surfaces can quickly lead to guest illness or, even worse – an outbreak that can result in life-threatening infections.
The Bactiscan illuminates an entire area to detects germs and bacteria before your guests do, enabling you to provide effective cleaning that can prevent a negative experience, and protect your reputation with a proactive approach to providing excellent service.
In addition, Bactiscan can prevent embarrassing hotel hygiene complaints by quickly auditing hotel cleanliness and getting results immediately.
The Bactiscan environmental monitoring system not only detects germs and contamination but helps verify that your housekeeping staff is cleaning to the highest standards.
Bactiscan Delivers Certainty In Just Minutes
It’s Fast
Bactiscan™ requires no lab time or space and returns definitive results immediately.
It’s Simple
Be marvelled as Bactiscan’s ultra-fast pathogen detection system illuminate surfaces and identify the exact location of bacteria, biofilm and mold.
It’s Comprehensive
Bactiscan™ provides early detection of microbes, to enable early implementation of mitigation, to prevent systemic contamination.
It’s Scalable
Bactiscan™ can perform an unlimited number of scans in a single day, at no additional cost.
It’s Cost-efficient
Not only is Bactiscan well-priced, but it also does not use any consumables. Bactiscan also increases the accuracy of conventional microbial detection methods— dramatically reducing both time and cost.
The real efficiencies of Bactiscan come from the prevention of infectious complications to consumers and patients, and from the money saved by reducing product loss to contamination.
It’s Eco-friendly
EIT International, the manufacturer of the Bactiscan, places a lot of emphasis on the environment and corporate social responsibility, hence Bactiscan adheres to very high environmental and legislative standards.
Bactiscan doesn’t use any chemicals or consumables, which makes it an ideal environmentally friendly option. It has been specifically designed to avoid issues associated with the use of any harmful dyes, chemicals, gases, or gels.
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Bactiscan is The Fastest, Most Reliable Surface Microbial Detection System
Hospital Bed
Bactiscan clearly identifies the clusters of bacteria that are being missed during the cleaning and swabbing process.
Let Bactiscan Show You Where The Bacteria Is!
Bottle Fill Line
These shocking photo taken at beverage processing plant using the Bactiscan, shows the turquoise-green fluorescence of bacteria or biofims on the surfaces filling heads.
It’s Not Very Clean Until, It’s Bactiscan Clean™
Surgical Mask
Bactiscan identifies any area where bacteria may be hiding. The presence of bacteria are visually evident as a turquoise-green fluorescence on the surfaces
Most Reliable Surface Microbial Detection System
The presence of bacteria or biofilms are visually evident as a turquoise-green fluorescence on the surfaces
Bactiscan Helps Eliminate Risk Exposure Caused By Bacteria Contamination.
See How Bactiscan Illuminates Away Uncertainty
Healthcare
Objective measurement of surface cleanliness using Bactiscan cleaning verification provides a rapid assessment of cleaning effectiveness and informs Infection Control managers to know how cleaning staff is performing, and quantify the standard of cleanliness in the healthcare environment.
Restaurant
Bactiscan system helps restaurant owners, franchise owners, regional auditors, and restaurant managers verify and monitor food-safety sanitation processes to ensure that they are effective and implemented correctly.
Hotel
Incomplete cleaning that leaves residual bacteria on surfaces can quickly lead to guest illness or, even worse - an outbreak. The Bactiscan detects germs and bacteria before your guests do, enabling effective cleaning that can prevent a negative experience, thus protecting your reputation.
Food Processor
Bactiscan has been trusted in food safety testing for over a decade and has been adopted by the food safety industry as the gold standard for surface pathogen detection. It provides the most powerful eco-friendly microbial detection and environmental monitoring tool on the market, to help your customers maintain a safe supply chain.
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Here’s The Big Question…
Do You Have a Reliable Solution to Immediately Identify and Isolate Surface Bacteria, Biofilm and Mold?
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
As part of compliance with HACCP requirements, processors need to identify critical control points (CCPs) as well as areas within their production facilities that could lead to product contamination or failure.
Bactiscan provides an easy-to-use system for checking surface areas following CIP (Clean in Place), allowing the processor to comply with due diligence requirements.
The stainless steel surfaces in the production area should be inspected regularly, searching for areas of biofilm and bacterial growth caused by poor cleaning techniques, such as spray ball faults, which can occur at any time during production or during CIP cleaning. These areas may cause product contamination at any time, so examination should be performed frequently.
This equipment allows the processor to see biofilms in real time, enabling them to take swabs of the area to accurately identify bacteria counts.
In addition to detecting proteins shells around bacteria, Bactiscan is designed to identify and isolate biofilms that are not visible with U.V., as evidenced by validation documentation provided by Campden BRI, the world leader in food safety standards and technology.
In our experience, some biofilms are hidden behind a glass-like surface caused by chemical hardening and continuous washing; hence, they are not detected when swabs are taken. Bactiscan can highlight these areas, but abrasive work must be done to remove the biofilm, in order to identify and quantify the bacteria. During production, these biofilms may become loose and release bacteria into the product, resulting in major contamination.
Ideally, you should isolate a line and scan all areas within that line, so that you cover all surfaces that come into contact with products. As an example, we recently checked a sterile water vessel that was the last item to be examined after searching for contamination. There were obvious biofilms on the vessel that leaked into the final rinse before the line was filled with product, contaminating the entire line.
With the Bactiscan system from EIT International, electronic sensors can be used for many years without any consumables, making it extremely environmentally friendly and cost-effective.
Using Bactiscan's real-time scanner and test piece, the manufacturer can detect bacterial biofilms on surfaces with impressive accuracy. This technology has been validated at Campden BRI.
Bactiscan illuminates surfaces using lightweight battery-powered electronic sensors.
We recommend that the inspector wear protective glasses while using Bactiscan. In most manufacturing facilities, safety glasses are readily available. Polycarbonate safety glasses block 99.9% of UV rays. That means even clear safety glasses offer excellent protection. Should you need more specific UV protection, an online search can provide you with vendors in their area.
We recommend that the inspector wear protective glasses while using Bactiscan. In most manufacturing facilities, safety glasses are readily available. Polycarbonate safety glasses block 99.9% of UV rays. That means even clear safety glasses offer excellent protection. Should you need more specific UV protection, an online search can provide you with vendors in their area.
Generally, downtime is not necessary whenever the surface can be illuminated by Bactiscan. For example, Bactiscan can examine an empty silo in approximately 30 minutes.
Bactiscan can detect poorly cleaned areas on many surfaces, including filling machines.
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