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.Ā 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 CorporationĀ (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’sĀ – MPC begins making bioluminescence instruments
1985Ā – Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) invented
1990’s – 2004
1995Ā –Ā Original gel-based BAXĀ® System launched
1996Ā – RiboPrinterĀ® microbial characterization system introduced
2001Ā – First automated BAXĀ® System launched
2002Ā – Hygiena formed to provide products for surface hygiene testing market
SnapShotĀ Universal ATP test introduced
2002Ā – 2003Ā – SpotCheck Plus and PRO-Cleanā¢Ā color tests for product residues launched
2003Ā – SystemSURE II ATP System with UltraSnap⢠introduced
2005 – 2009
2005Ā – Company develops global sales team
2005Ā – BAXĀ® System Q7 PCR instrument introduced
2006Ā – SystemSURE Plus, next version of ATP instrument, launched
2007Ā –Ā Launch of new chromogenic bacteria testĀ InSite Listeria
2008Ā – Hygiena Shanghai establishes presence in Asia, Oceania
2010 – 2014
2010Ā – Entry into hospital segments in Europe, US
2010Ā – First BAXĀ® System assay with Scorpions probe technology
2011Ā –Ā EnSUREā¢Ā Monitoring System introduced as next generation of SystemSURE Plus luminometer
2013Ā – AOAC-RI approval on first MicroSnap⢠tests
2014Ā – AllerFlow Gluten test for allergens launched
2015 – Today
2015Ā –Ā Smaller BAXĀ® System X5 provides PCR detection to more food companies
2015Ā –Ā AOAC-RI approval for MicroSnap⢠Total; InSite Salmonella launched
2016Ā – Company partners with Warburg Pincus for investment, growth
2017Ā – Hygiena acquires BAXĀ® System, RiboPrinterĀ® System from DuPont Diagnostics’ Qualicon business
2018Ā –Ā Hygiena Completes Acquisition of Biomedal Diagnostics Food Safety
2018Ā –Ā Hygiena and Charles River Laboratories, Inc. enter strategic partnership for CelsisĀ® Dairy, Food & Beverage Products