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Industry · Solutions
Microbiology testing for dairy producers.
Milk is an ideal growth medium, so dairy quality depends on catching contamination early, from raw milk intake to the filled pack. We supply the culture media, ready-to-use plates and hygiene monitoring that dairy QC teams run every day.
Your testing reality
Dairy plants handle a raw material that supports bacterial growth from the moment it leaves the animal. Raw milk quality sets the starting point, pasteurisation and processing have to bring counts down reliably, and post-process contamination from fillers, pipework and cold rooms decides whether the product reaches the end of its shelf life.
Listeria is the organism that shapes most dairy environmental programmes. It survives refrigeration, settles in drains and wet areas, and can reach soft cheese, yoghurt and desserts after heat treatment. Coliforms and Enterobacteriaceae show whether hygiene is under control, and yeasts and moulds are the usual cause of spoilage in cultured products.
Because milk residue is cooked onto surfaces during processing, hygiene checks need to see the breakdown products of ATP as well as ATP itself. That is where A3 hygiene monitoring earns its place alongside the micro lab.
- Listeria after heat treatment
Post-process contamination is the main Listeria risk in dairy, so environmental monitoring matters as much as product testing.
- Short shelf life
Fresh dairy products ship within days. Results that arrive after dispatch protect nobody.
- Cleaning that can be shown
Auditors and retail customers expect CIP and surface cleaning to be verified and recorded, not assumed.
What to test for
The core dairy panel: pathogens for safety, indicators for hygiene and shelf life.
The core panelPathogens for safety · indicators for control
- Listeriapathogen
- Staphylococcus aureuspathogen
- Escherichia colipathogen
- Bacillus cereuspathogen
- Salmonellapathogen
- Coliformindicator
- Enterobacteriaceaeindicator
- Total Microbial Countindicator
- Yeast and Mouldindicator
Methods for your operation
Most dairy QC programmes combine three approaches.
- Traditional · ISOFor reference results
Plate count, coliform and Listeria media to recognised methods, for release testing and results that have to stand up to challenge.
- RapidFor daily control
Ready-to-use plates for routine counts, and A3 hygiene monitoring to check surfaces before production restarts.
- Molecular · ELISAFor fast screening
Listeria screening in hours rather than days, where a positive environmental swab needs a quick answer.
Products for dairy
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.