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Hygiene and microbiology testing for catering and hospitality kitchens.
Hotel, catering and central kitchens serve food within hours of preparing it, so cleaning has to be right the first time. We supply hygiene monitoring and ready-to-use plates that kitchen and QA teams can run without a full laboratory.
Your testing reality
Kitchens work to a different clock from a factory. Food is prepared, cooked and served in the same shift, so there is no hold time in which to wait for a lab result. Hygiene has to be checked before service, and the check has to be fast enough to act on.
Most kitchen risk comes from surfaces and hands: cutting boards, slicers, prep tables and the handles and taps that everyone touches. Cooked food residue is the hardest to see, because heat breaks ATP down into ADP and AMP that ATP-only tests miss.
Behind the daily checks sits periodic verification: counts on ready-to-eat food and surfaces that show the HACCP plan is working, and give inspectors and clients something on paper.
- No time to wait
Food is served within hours, so hygiene checks have to give an answer before service starts.
- Inspections and client audits
Municipality inspections, hotel brand standards and catering contracts all ask for evidence of cleaning.
- Many sites, one standard
Groups with several kitchens need results that can be compared by site and test point.
What to test for
The organisms most kitchen verification programmes look for.
The core panelPathogens for safety · indicators for control
- Staphylococcus aureuspathogen
- Bacillus cereuspathogen
- Escherichia colipathogen
- Salmonellapathogen
- Listeriapathogen
- Total Microbial Countindicator
- Coliformindicator
- Enterobacteriaceaeindicator
Methods for your operation
Two layers: fast checks every day, counts to verify them.
- RapidFor daily checks
A3 hygiene monitoring gives a cleanliness result in 10 seconds at each test point, and ready-to-use plates make counts possible without a full lab.
- Traditional · ISOFor verification
Reference media for the periodic testing that confirms the daily checks, usually run in-house or by a contract lab.
Products for catering and hospitality
A representative selection across the core panel. The full range is available in the catalogue.
Results that
withstand scrutiny.
Every product is supplied against recognised methods and validation — culture media according to ISO methods, rapid media plates with AOAC certifications, and world renowned reference materials with documented traceability — dispatched by an SFDA-licensed company. Suitable for use in ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratories.
Laboratory-ready traceabilitySuitable for ISO/IEC 17025 accredited workflows.
Independent method validationAOAC-certified rapid media plates for routine testing.
Licensed Saudi supplyProducts dispatched through an SFDA-licensed company.
Sourced from the brands your methods are built on.
Building or upgrading your testing programme?
Tell us your product lines and the organisms you're required to test — we'll recommend methods and respond with pricing, availability and lead time.