Innovis Technologies

Safeguarding Food and Water from Microbial Contamination

Rapid - Accurate- Easy

Advances in molecular biology have finally allowed environmental microbiology to enter the 21st century. Innovis has harnessed these advances to provide a rapid, portable and easy to use microbial detection system.

Results when and where you need them. That is the Innovis promise. No more waiting for results. No expensive equipment purchases. Just rapid, reliable analyses wherever they are needed.

A Time For Change

Recent outbreaks of E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella in the nation’s food and water supply reveal critical deficiencies in technology to detect these and other pathogens. Current methods require a specialized laboratory, trained professionals, and a minimum of 24-48 hours to detect the presence of disease-causing organisms. With repeated failings in current methods and recurring outbreaks of infectious diseases, the need for a new solution is critical.

Innovis offers patented and proven molecular diagnostic techniques that will revolutionize the food and water testing industry. Innovis kits are unique in the diagnostic testing arena. The tests arefaster, with results in 10 minutes; able to detect and identify numerous pathogens in a single ananalysis; and portable, requiring minimal training to operate.
Innovis’ microbe-detection tests can be applied reliably to well and irrigation water, fresh produce, and meat products. The portability feature provides an ideal solution for remote water sources, farmlands, and busy assembly lines in meat processing plants.

Industry Norms have Deadly Consequences

The environmental microbiology industry is governed by federal regulations that mandate the testing of water, meat, and produce for bacterial contamination as a matter of public health and safety. Recent widespread and fatal outbreaks of the disease causing bacterium Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli) in the nation’s food supply have underscored the need for such testing, while exposing the weaknesses of current methods, creating a demand for rapid accurate methods.
The current standard methods for testing require 24-48 hours for detection of bacterial species. This is problematic because contaminated food and water sources may reach the public before test results are known. Contaminated foods are recalled at tremendous expense, and create a public relations nightmare. In addition to steep fines for contaminated products within reach of the public, the lasting effects to the reputation of an organization that distributes a disease causing organism are devastating. When detection is missed altogether, all members of the food or water delivery chain are subject to lawsuits, and management and compliance teams may even face criminal charges.