Facilities handling ready-to-eat (RTE) foods must take all the necessary precautions to protect consumers, as their products are particularly high risk for causing food-borne illness. Hygiena’s line of affordable tests not only offers a renowned level of accuracy and consistency, but also allows RTE food processors to get test results faster and release products sooner for optimal freshness and product quality. These tests range from monitoring of ATP on processing surfaces to ensure overall cleanliness, specific swabs for certain known pathogens, and other technologically sophisticated products that harness the power of PCR (the polymerase chain reaction) to identify microbes, and other products that can use DNA fingerprinting to specifically point out pathogens to the strain level.