Maintaining good sanitation within the area of production is crucial. When your industry is mainly producing consumer goods, ensuring the product is contaminant free is an essential part of your production cycle. Hence, every industry has their own sanitation programs with their own actions and procedures.

The most commonly used sanitation program is called the ATP Program. ATP or also known as Adenosine Triphosphate can be found in all organic matter such as food products, skin cells and microbes. A robust ATP program is centered around the detection of this molecule as it provides the nutrients for microbial survival and if absent is an excellent indicator of sanitation effectiveness. It’s simple, the higher the number, the higher organic matter on the surface and the dirtier the surface.

ATP testing initiates recleaning in real-time to help reduce the potential for microbial build-up on production lines that could impact food quality, spoilage, or worse, the risk of a recall due to ineffective sanitation practices.

The questions remain, why must every Industry have a sanitation program with ATP Testing?

First of all, as a producer of consumer goods we have to make sure our product is consumer safe and suitable
Following number 1, there are rules of hygiene and food safety standards that the company has to comply
Maintaining a good sanitation means good quality products and gaining the consumer’s trust which in turn benefits company sales

As such, Charm provides your company with solutions to implement effective and robust ATP testing programs in your production cycles with Charm PocketSwab and NovaLUM reader that can help you achieve the best sanitation standard. PocketSwab and The NovaLUM reader help you identify and verify the cleanliness of your work places. Its simplicity allows anyone to do the test, just take a swab of the area that you wish to verify, twist the PocketSwab so the buffer solution will dilute the swabbed tip, and get the result read by NovaLUM reader. The entire process only takes seconds to a minute for a single analysis.

With this fast technology, not only you can get the hygiene and food safety standard but also the satisfaction and benefit from the customers.