Less hassle. More results. Better business.
The BactoScan™ 5, milk bacteria analyzer, exploits advances in instrument hardware and the latest in software and networking connectivity to achieve new levels of productivity in raw milk analysis. With a capacity to analyze between 65 and 200 milk samples per hour, BactoScan 5 ensures a high throughput of milk samples, freeing up operator time while ensuring fast response to dairies and farmers.
BactoScan 5 enables safer and more cost-efficient screening of raw milk for improved food safety and milk quality assurance. Benefit from superior instrument uptime, flexible capacity and fewer operator steps for an optimised workflow. At the same time, BactoScan 5 reduces human error and time spent on reagent preparation, maintenance, and cleaning while responsibly lowering the use of chemicals and waste.
Accuracy in 4 steps
BactoScan 5 processes a sample in 4 steps.
1. The sample is stirred and pumped into a tube and carefully sub-sampled.
2. The sample is dosed into an incubation wheel together with staining solution and enzyme for staining and homogenization.
3. The stained sample is passed through the flow cell and excited by a green laser. A lens and optical filter pick up the signals emitted by passing bacteria.
4. Results are sent to your LIMS via FossIntegrator™. To ensure optimal results, automatic cleaning is initiated between each sample.
Bacteria under control. Milk quality on the rise
Milk quality today has improved remarkably since the 1980’s. In the diagram above, we clearly see that the amount of milk samples with low bacteria content has increased over the past decades. This change suggests that significant improvements, particularly in terms of farm hygiene, have contributed to the improved quality and safety of milk.
These improvements and the resulting high quality of milk we see today has been enabled by cost-efficient technology such as BactoScan™, allowing analysis of large numbers of samples, which was the basis for including bacteria as a milk payment parameter. That way, dairies could financially incentivize milk producers to produce high quality milk.
