About Hygiena
Hygiena™ delivers rapid microbial detection, monitoring, and identification solutions to a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, health care, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, and personal care. Utilizing advanced technologies and patented designs, Hygiena™ provides industry-leading ATP monitoring systems, PCR-based foodborne pathogen detection, DNA fingerprint molecular characterization systems, allergen tests, environmental collection devices, and more. Hygiena™ is committed to providing customers with high-quality innovative technologies that are easy-to-use and reliable, backed by excellent customer service and support. Headquartered in Camarillo, California, with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, the United Kingdom, and China, and over 80 distributors in more than 100 countries worldwide, Hygiena™ products span the globe.
Company History
1970’s – 1980’s
1974 – Medical Packaging Corporation (MPC)
founded, maker of sample collection, human diagnostics tests
1975 – Finnish inventor Veikko Tarkkanen invents ATP luminescence system
1980’s – ATP testing pulls ahead of cell culture in rapid food safety testing
1980’s – ATP testing moves from lab to handheld
1980’s – MPC begins making bioluminescence instruments
1985 – Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) invented
1990’s – 2004
1995 – Original gel-based BAX® System launched
1996 – RiboPrinter® microbial characterization system introduced
2001 – First automated BAX® System launched
2002 – Hygiena™ formed to provide products for surface hygiene testing market
SnapShot Universal ATP test introduced
2002 – 2003 – SpotCheck Plus and PRO-Clean™ color tests for product residues launched
2003 – SystemSURE II ATP System with UltraSnap™ introduced
2005 – 2009
2005 – Company develops global sales team
2005 – BAX® System Q7 PCR instrument introduced
2006 – SystemSURE Plus, next version of ATP instrument, launched
2007 – Launch of new chromogenic bacteria test InSite Listeria
2008 – Hygiena™ Shanghai establishes presence in Asia, Oceania
2010 – 2014
2010 – Entry into hospital segments in Europe, US
2010 – First BAX® System assay with Scorpions probe technology
2011 – EnSURE™ Monitoring System introduced as next generation of SystemSURE Plus luminometer
2013 – AOAC-RI approval on first MicroSnap™ tests
2014 – AllerFlow Gluten test for allergens launched
2015 – 2018
2015 – Smaller BAX® System X5 provides PCR detection to more food companies
2015 – AOAC-RI approval for MicroSnap™ Total; InSite Salmonella launched
2016 – Company partners with Warburg Pincus for investment, growth
2017 – Hygiena™ acquires BAX® System, RiboPrinter® System from DuPont Diagnostics’ Qualicon business
2018 – Hygiena™ Completes Acquisition of Biomedal Diagnostics Food Safety
2018 – Hygiena™ and Charles River Laboratories, Inc. enter strategic partnership for Celsis® Dairy, Food & Beverage Products
2019 – Today
2019 – Hygiena™ Launches EnSURE™ Touch and SureTrend™ Cloud software
2019 – Hygiena™ acquires Helica™ Biosystems Inc, adding mycotoxin immunoassay food safety tests to the Hygiena™ product portfolio
2020 – Ecolab® Partners with Hygiena™ to Deliver Food Safety Solutions to the Food and Beverage Industry
2020 – Hygiena™ releases first quantitative method for pathogen quantification using PCR (BAX® System SalQuant™)
2021 – EW Group acquires Hygiena™ from Warburg Pincus to form a leading food safety, veterinary and environmental diagnostic solutions company.
2021 – Hygiena™ receives 2021 IAFP Food Safety Innovation Award for developing the BAX® System SalQuant™ method.