ATP Tester
Enables rapid detection of bacterial or microbial residue / Stores up to 10,000 date- and time-stamped data records to internal memory / Provides connectivity via USB and Bluetooth printer interfaces / Includes PC software for analysis

PCE-ATP 1 is a food safety / hygiene - ATP tester, ATP meter, lumitester or luminometer used for surface testing. This luminometer allows for quick and easy first-generation adenosine triphosphate (ATP) testing and monitoring to ensure proper cleanliness, sterilization and sanitization. PCE-ATP 1 is an ATP tester that can be used for cleanliness control and documentation in many different applications.

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Monitoring of hygienic conditions is essential, no matter what sphere of life it goes about. Still, there are certain areas where it is of crucial importance. Food industry and food producing enterprises are among the first to get the biggest attention from the controlling authorities. Not only it is important for the customers to get a clean and safe for health product, without contamination and danger to catch undesirable bacteria or illness together with the purchased bad-quality product. It is absolutely devastating for the food enterprise if complaints from the customers about the quality get a permanent character, which in the long run ruins the reputation and brings to huge financial losses.

In the majority of cases, production and the products themselves do not exist in the isolated vacuum. So, the total value of ATP that should be studied and analyzed is a collective value that is made up of many values from different sources in the environment containing ATP.

Since there is a big amount of disinfecting cleansers and detergents applied every day, a fair concern may be, whether the results remain accurate if the measurements are carried out there where the chemical agents are / were applied. An advantage of the ATP tester is that the influence of the disinfecting agents on the ATP monitor minimized due to its design and working principle. The measuring unit is a relative light unit (RLU), which is in fact, the intensity of light emitted by the sample. During the measurement, the ATP tester registers photons which are released in the result of a reaction between ATP molecule and ferment luciferase-luciferin. The result is directly proportional to the ATP value. Usually, the higher the measurement result / value, the more bacteria are detected.

An important fact is that there no strict limits which apply to all the food categories. Much depends on the processing of the foodstuff (whether it is frozen, boiled, fried) as well as on the category of consumers (small children, elderly people, healthy / sick people and similar) - An ATP monitor helps to save lives.