“Bacteria are like young children; they do anything they want,” Bob Greene explains. Only one microbe needs to lodge in a fissure the size of a human hair to start multiplying exponentially. Many bacteria can double in size every 20 minutes in optimum conditions. Standard sanitation chemicals may not be able to eliminate a biofilm formed by these bacteria. This condition might cause a sudden change to our sanitation program result. It is no surprise to witness one or two instances of random micro spikes in your finished product.

Providing a good and accurate ATP program, will, help you to handle this issue. ATP program is closely related to an additional sanitation and cleaning action after the Clean-in-Place (CIP) program. A robust ATP program that gives immediate pass/fail result is necessary in order to decide the next step of the program. Other than the ATP program, a Microbiological Environment Program might be an excellent plan to do next. This includes testing for pathogens and indicator organisms such as Coliforms and Enterobacteriaceae.

Many industries are using an external lab to do this program. However it is quite do-able to be done in-house. The cost of setting up a small lab to conduct sanitation and environmental microbial monitoring is minimal. Simply with a small incubator, some pipettes, and a bag of Microbial peel plate test you can test indicator organisms, such as Aerobic Bacteria (AC), Coliforms (CC), Enterobacteriaceae (EB), and E. coli (EC).

In such need, Charm has helped lots of cases regarding the microbes problem all around the world by providing the Charm Novalum System for ATP testing and the Microbial Peel plate test which can give you not only an reliable, but fast result.

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