Seafood safety moves fast. Your testing program has to keep up. Hygiena® helps seafood processors identify risk earlier, act faster and make confident release decisions with testing and food safety workflows built around their products, processes and risks.
Hygiena provides rapid testing solutions for fish and shellfish processors across the full seafood food safety program: ATP hygiene monitoring, PCR pathogen detection, on-site Listeria environmental monitoring, histamine testing in fish, indicator organisms, species identification and commercial sterility testing.
Real-time PCR assays on the BAX® System and foodproof® detect Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus and Salmonella in seafood, returning results in hours rather than the days required for culture methods. Faster results shorten hold times and let producers release product sooner.
InSite® Listeria screens cold, wet processing environments on-site without the need for a laboratory. AlerTox® ELISA quantifies histamine to help assess scombrotoxin risk in tuna and mackerel. foodproof® Animal ID PCR confirms declared species in fish, shrimp and crab. MicroSnap® measures Total Viable Count, Enterobacteriaceae, coliforms and E. coli as indicators of process control.
Seafood Testing Options Across Products and Processes
Shrimp, oysters, clams, mussels and fresh fillets. Testing options include Vibrio spp. detection in raw shellfish, enterovirus testing for shellfish, histamine testing in scombroid species, other pathogen and indicator organism testing and ATP hygiene verification across contact surfaces and process water.
Cold-smoked salmon, gravlax and cured fish. Testing options include Listeria spp. environmental monitoring, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella detection, molecular confirmation of presumptive positives, indicator organism testing and ATP hygiene verification.
Cooked shrimp, crab meat, surimi and prepared seafood meals. Testing options include Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella detection, Listeria spp. environmental monitoring, allergen testing, indicator organism testing and ATP hygiene verification.
Farmed fish and shellfish, including salmon, tilapia, trout and shrimp. Testing options include Salmonella and Vibrio spp. detection, enterovirus testing for shellfish, indicator organism testing, ATP hygiene verification and environmental monitoring across harvesting and processing.
Testing Solutions to Support Your Seafood HACCP Plan
Seafood processors worldwide operate within regulatory and food safety frameworks built on risk-based hazard analysis and preventive controls. HACCP principles provide a common foundation across Codex guidance, national and regional regulations, ISO 22000, and GFSI-recognized certification programs such as BRCGS Food Safety, IFS Food and FSSC 22000. While requirements vary by market, the objective is consistent: identify relevant seafood safety hazards, establish effective controls and verify that those controls are working.
| Where Risks Occurs | What to Watch for | How Testing Supports the Decision |
| Receiving raw material | Histamine already formed in scombroid species, Vibrio spp. in raw shellfish, enteroviruses in shellfish, and substituted or misidentified species from suppliers. | Potential issues identified before the load enters production |
| Cold storage and thaw | Temperature abuse that can drive histamine formation and pathogen growth, including Listeria monocytogenes in RTE seafood. | Greater confidence in cold chain control and product safety. |
| Sanitation and start-up | Cleaning failure on cold, wet contact surfaces | More consistent production with fewer unexpected interruptions |
| Processing environment | Listeria harborage in drains, floors and standing water | Your RTE line, before a niche becomes a product positive |
| Post-process handling | Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella on cooked and RTE product | The recall exposure that sits on finished goods |
| Packaging and labeling | Species substitution, allergen cross-contact from shared lines | Your label, and the brand printed on the pack |
| Finished product release | Pathogens, indicator organisms, sterility failure in canned product | Days of hold time and the cash sitting in cold storage |
One Partner Across the Whole Seafood Program
From sanitation verification and environmental monitoring to pathogen detection, histamine, allergens, species authenticity and commercial sterility, Hygiena helps you build a testing approach around the risks that matter to your operation.
Check surfaces and process water in seconds, so a failed clean is caught at start-up rather than in a finished-product result.
Screen drains, floors and harborage sites on-site, with no laboratory, and identify potential Listeria contamination in the environment and support earlier corrective action.
Detect Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Salmonella and E. coli, with enterovirus testing options for shellfish, helping identify pathogen risks faster and support confident release decisions.
Measure Enterobacteriaceae, coliforms, E. coli and total viable count in the same shift, monitor process conditions and identify changes that may warrant investigations.
Confirm declared species in fish, shrimp and crab before labeling, and protect your brand from substitution and seafood fraud.
Verify cleaning between runs, validate changeover procedures, help manage allergen cross-contact risk and support the allergen claims on your label.
Why Leading Seafood Processors Around the World Choose Hygiena
✓ Expertise Built for Seafood’s Real-World Challenges. Cold, wet, high-salt and sometimes remote environments create unique testing demands. Hygiena combines validated solutions with application expertise to help address the realities of seafood processing.
✓ Validated where you sell. AOAC, AFNOR, MicroVal, NordVal, Health Canada, GB China, MAPA Brazil and more. Results that hold up at your customer’s audit and at the border.
✓ Answers the same day you swab. Rapid methods replace multi-day culture, reducing operational costs by accelerating investigations and minimizing downtime while waiting for results.
✓ One record, every facility. Testing and sanitation data are connected across sites, so a recurring positive at one site becomes visible before it becomes a pattern across three sites.
✓ Global support. Application laboratories and more than 160 technical specialists worldwide, plus 90,000+ customers across 96 countries.
✓ Built-In Confidence. BAX® System assays include an internal positive control in every reaction, helping seafood laboratories identify inhibition or reaction failure and make confident decisions from negative results.
Validated and Recognized Against Global Seafood Requirements
One Connected Food Safety Platform
Turn individual testing results into greater visibility across your food safety program. Identify trends, investigate recurring issues, and pinpoint where action may be needed across shifts, lines, and facilities.
Turn insights into execution by managing sanitation workflows, corrective actions and compliance documentation across your operation.
Customer Testimonial: How Trident Seafoods Runs Listeria Environmental Monitoring at Sea
Seafood Testing That Works Where Seafood Happens
See how Trident Seafoods implemented Listeria environmental monitoring aboard remote processing vessels at sea.
"Hygiena's InSite test provided a simple, self-contained, cost-effective, reliable and viable under refrigerated conditions test kit. In our remote processing environments, it is difficult to meet one or more of these conditions. Hygiena's InSite was able to meet all these conditions."
Scott Thacker, Food Safety and Quality Assurance Director, Trident Seafoods
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