Legionella Testing Kit With On-Site Results In Just 25 Minutes

Benefits of our Legionella Test

• Incidences of Legionnaires’ disease are on the rise. As a result, conventional lab-based methods for water testing remain dangerously time consuming. Therefore, this puts lives at risk.
• Minimises the time to identify legionella bacteria. Additionally, our onsite legionella testing kit reduces public health risk and and helps save lives.
• Similarly to a legionella test in the lab, this simple test helps your organisation maintain control over water system quality.

Why choose our rapid Legionella Testing Kit?

• Hotels, restaurants, schools, sport and healthcare facilities are just some of the fast moving environments where water quality can change quickly and frequently.
• Real-time legionella water testing helps keep these organisations safe from outbreaks and the associated reputational damage.
• For water service providers and maintenance staff, our legionnaires test offers an incredibly useful tool for a peace of mind.
• The simple legionnaires test enables engineers to obtain earlier calls to action while still onsite.

What can you use our Legionella Water Testing kit for?

A water sample can be taken from any hot and cold water source, or industrial sources. This is including, but not limited to:

How to test for Legionella in water?

This is the world’s only genuine cost-effective ‘instant’ legionella test, which provides onsite results of potential contamination. In addition, the test requires no in-depth training or experience to carry it out.

Our all inclusive kit is specifically for legionella pneumophila sero group 1 (SG1). This is the variety of legionella bacteria responsible for the vast majority of Legionnaires’ disease cases.

The test is sensitive at low concentrations – 100 CFU/L.

Our legionnaires test kit is used to support existing management procedures. However, our test kit should not wholly replace laboratory analysis for legionella water testing or dipslide sampling for bacteria. Instead, it is an approved and ideal monitoring tool. As a result, this aids maintaining a healthy water system through a regular, quick and reliable legionella test.

What are the risks of not doing a Legionella test?

It is absolutely vital for a business or homeowner to control the risks. Additionally, they have the responsibility to take precautionary steps to prevent the growth of legionella. Foremost, the health and safety of individuals rely on sufficient water treatment practices, including how water is stored. These practices should all adhere to HSG274 part 1.

If someone does contract Legionnaires disease, it can be lethal. As a result, victims of the disease are often placed in intensive care. Furthermore, productivity and business reputation is negatively affected. More importantly, family and friends can fall seriously ill.

Evidently there are premises more susceptible to an outbreak, like care homes for example. However, no property is immune to the possibility. An example of a specific case study is when a hotel in Ludlow was unfortunately discovered to contain legionella bacteria.

Does this new form of legionella test replace lab culture testing?

Our 25 minute onsite legionella sampling kit does not replace UK compliance requirements for UKAS accredited lab testing.

If your water system circumstances dictate that lab testing method is required, you MUST carry out a lab test. Even though this could take 10-14 days to return a result.

Lab tests for legionella are for compliance purposes. On the other hand, our 25 minute onsite legionella test kit is for risk management and risk reduction. As a result, it can be used in conjunction with lab tests if a faster result is required.

Our customers keep several of these site testing devices in stock at their business. This is in case of the requirement for an emergency legionnaires disease test.

Our device uses lateral flow test technology to detect for the presence of legionella bacteria.

The legionella testing kit contains a single control line to confirm it is working properly. The line, if present, shows the presence of legionella bacteria (SG1).

Lateral flow test devices have been used for a long time, reliably across many industry sectors. These include environmental legionella water testing, animal health, food/feed and plant/crop health.