Assessing the Performance of a Real-Time Total Adenylate (ATP+ADP+AMP) Detection Assay for Surface Hygiene Monitoring in Food Manufacturing Plants and Commercial Kitchens

What is it about?

Environmental hygiene monitoring in food processing environment is becoming more important in the current food safety program to ensure safe food production. However, conventional monitoring of surface hygiene based on visual inspection and microbial count are slow, tedious and thus not able to support the current risk-based management system. Therefore, this study was conducted to explore and assess the performance of A3 assay as a hygiene indicator as well as an alternative real-time microbial indicator of food contact surfaces in food manufacturing settings.

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