Hygiene Monitoring - MVP Icon

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Hygiene Monitoring

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The MVP ICON is the pioneer for providing a complete HACCP tool incorporating ATP Measurement, Temperature, Conductivity and pH for food and Feed industries. With HACCP plant audit in mind, the MVP Icon has intuitive software that provides a real time snap shot of key program metrics as well as a time based recording and with daily, weekly and monthly summary. This summary provides a full picture of your factory’s hygiene status with quantifiable performance standards of all cleaning crews. A motivation program can be incorporated based on cleaning performance records.

ATP as A Proxy for Cleaning Efficiency

Multidrug-resistant microorganisms and the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have raised public awareness of the need to control the spread of infectious diseases. It is becoming ever more important that public services monitor the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection procedures. Recent studies by the NIH (National Institutes of Health) showed that viable viruses can be detected on surfaces after 2-3 days.

Operational hygiene teams are responsible for verifying that cleaning procedures are properly implemented, followed, and continue to be proven effective. MVP ICON® is a quick and easy-to-use system to verify the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection procedures on a routine basis. The system is intended to measure the amount of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) on cleaned surfaces, thereby providing a quantifiable indication of cleaning effectiveness, even if viruses like SARS-CoV-2 are not directly detected.

Reference: Sifuentes L.Y., Fankem, S.L.M., Reynolds, K., Tamimi, A.K., Gerba, C.P., Koenig, D. (2017): Use of ATP Readings to Predict a Successful Hygiene Intervention in the Workplace to Reduce the Spread of Viruses on Fomites. Food Environ Virol 9:14–19