
In the rapidly evolving world of regulatory legislation, good manufacturing practice (GMP) and industry compliance for the liquid food, beverage, nutrition and pharmaceutical industries in particular, our products, as well as our strategy and decision making, adhere to the highest standards of environmental and corporate social responsibility, giving our customers and their employees peace of mind.
Whatever the industry sector, EIT International’s preventative control technology systems can facilitate improved performance and efficiency, delivering a realistic return on investment in a fast turnaround, short time frame.
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Bactiscan™ and BactiscanPRO™
The Bactiscan™ and BactiscanPRO™ are handheld bacteria and biofilm detection systems that use environmentally friendly and safe to handle/use wave-alternating UV light sources to quickly identify areas harbouring bacterial contaminants such as E.coli, listeria and salmonella which are often missed under standard white light or UV lamps.
Bactiscan™ is the leading detection system for identifying clusters of bacteria and biofilms instantaneously on a surface. Following the successful launch in July 2020, EIT International released the next generation BactiscanPRO™ which incorporates stills and video capture capability. “This is a direct response to requests from our customers in dairy, pharma and food production” said Joshua Robinson, Head of R&D at EIT International, “Since the initial launch of Bactiscan™ in 2020, we have been requested to incorporate image capture technology and we are pleased to be able to offer the BactiscanPRO™ to meet that need”.
The images or video captured using the BactiscanPRO™ are uploaded to an internal Quality System and will form the basis of any documented corrective action. The BactiscanPRO™ is fitted with AKASO V50 4K/30fps and a 20MP image action camera to capture every detail of your audit and has built-in wifi connectivity allowing you to connect the camera to a phone or tablet, simply download the AKASO GO app.
The Bactiscan™ has been independently validated by CampdenBRI (Assessment of Bactiscan instrument for detection of food industry biofilms – November 2020) and proved effective through continuous use by some of the world’s largest food production, dairy, brewery and pharmaceutical companies. The four high intensity UV wavelengths emitted, combine to enable the operator to view large areas in an instantaneous and non-destructive way without the need for any dye penetrants. Bacteria based contaminants are often undetectable using other methods such as white light and standard UV lamps, with Bactiscan™ and BactiscanPRO™, you can radiate the beam across an entire surface and get an immediate result, so within seconds you can identify issues that would take hours with any other method.
The Bactiscan™ detection scanner was initially developed for the global regulated food production and processing market. This was in response to the need for fast, reliable bacteria detection to reduce the number of contamination issues suffered by manufacturers even after conducting ATP swab testing, which is limited by the sample size area. Bactiscan™ works on the fringe of the UV spectrum and utilises 4 separate wavelengths that combine to detect the protein shell that is produced by bacteria. The system has proved hugely successful in this field and quickly gained popularity in the brewing, pharmaceutical, nutrition, laboratory, public transport and hospitality sectors as part of effective cleaning protocols.
How does Bactiscan™/ BactiscanPRO™ identify bacteria?
Many bacteria are protected by a thin, hard outer shell called an S-layer, or surface layer. All S-layers are part of the bacteria cell envelope and are made up of a two-dimensional array of proteins that have a crystalline appearance. It is this protein shell that is detected by the Bactiscan™ and BactiscanPRO™ to emit an unmistakable green hue.
Environmental cleaning is a fundamental principle of infection prevention and control (ICP). It is known that certain environment settings can serve as a reservoir for microorganisms, potentially contributing to the transmission of bacterial and epidemiologically significant pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE), Acinetobacter baumannii., Clostridium difficile (C.diff) norovirus and Carbapenemasc producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE). Containment and monitoring of surface cleaning efficacy measures are therefore essential to break the contamination chain of these microorganisms.
Many regulated industries that have processing lines as part of product manufacturing, have a common problem in detecting bacteria and biofilms that could contaminate the end product. Currently, most production sites use ATP tests for measuring actively growing microorganisms through detection of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Although this process is good, it is not fool proof due to the limited size of physical swab point compared to overall volume of surface of a processing line, and the physical swab procedure is cumbersome. Other technologies include florescent markers and gels; however, these are not environmentally friendly and, again, cover a limited size of physical test area. Using Bactiscan™ or BactiscanPRO™ to identify the location of bacterial contamination point for ATP swab tests to then be taken, increases the effectiveness of cleaning and hygiene protocols whilst removing the risk of potentially costly recalls due to testing the wrong areas of a production site.
How does the Bactiscan help elimate risk exposure caused by bacteria contaminants?
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Bactiscope
The Bactiscope™ is a reliable, portable bacteria and biofilm detection system that, like its companion products, the Bactiscan™ and BactiscanPRO™, uses environmentally friendly and safe to handle/use wave-alternating UV light sources to instaneously identify areas harbouring bacterial contaminants such as E.coli, listeria and salmonella in pipework and other awkward to access areas of production lines and processing sites which are often missed under standard white light or UV lamps. The
images or video captured using the Bactiscope™ are uploaded to an internal Quality System and will form
the basis of any documented corrective action.
EIT International’s Bactiscope™ inspection cameras give you the freedom to inspect and investigate areas that would normally be inaccessible for standard cleaning and inspection protocols. Fundamentally, the Bactiscope™ is a miniature camera, or probe, on a flexible cable that can be manoeuvred into awkward areas such as pipework or behind hard-to-reach areas. The Bactiscope™ has a single camera head with an external diameter of 37mm, that then transmits a video feed that allows you to see a close-up, real time view of inspection areas.
Food production managers are relied upon to make a critical decision every day, namely whether to start production or not. The fundamental concern when making this decision is the hygiene of the facility and how that will impact productivity. For each hour production is on hold for cleaning, any potential revenue is lost. However, if production is conducted using a piping process or a surface that hasn’t been adequately cleaned, the risk of contamination and costly recalls increases dramatically.
With its unique wave-alternating UV system, the Bactiscope™ enables food producers and maintenance teams to immediately locate and isolate biofilms, mould and bacteria such as salmonella, E.coli and many other contaminants; Bactiscope™ makes the identification and remediation job much faster and therefore more cost effective than many alternative methods, which makes it attractive not just to users, but also the management teams for planning cleaning and maintenance programs.
Many contaminants are often undetectable using other methods such as white light and standard single UV source lamps. With Bactiscope™ you can illuminate the entire internal surface of pipework and receive an immediate result; within seconds you can detect contamination sites for testing and remedial works that would not normally be identified using less sophisticated methods.


Magnerscan MAG3
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EIT International is an industry leader in the development and supply of environmentally friendly preventative controls and detection systems for the liquid food processing, nutraceutical, pharma-medical and petrochemical industries.
EIT International’s Magnerscan™ non-invasive testing system, uses ground-breaking technology to provide the fastest and most accurate surface integrity and crack detection results in the market. Cracks, pin-holes and general surface defects in metal are an important indicator reflecting the safety status of your production infrastructure. Magnerscan™ electronic surface integrity detection system utilises an array of close-contact inline sensors which is far superior to eddy current testing (ECT) and dye penetrant inspection (DPI) as it is environmentally friendly and does not require pre-test preparation. The operation of Magnerscan™ also requires limited training for the operator.
GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice), HACCP programmes and pathogen monitoring are essential for effective food safety programmes especially in the most widely used industrial process, spray drying. The importance of regular examination and testing of a spray dryer chamber is paramount in today's industries, cracks and defects have the potential source of microbial contamination that may lead to food spoilage or transmission of diseases.
Cracks/ defects will often emerge from active sites of pitting corrosion within holding, mixing and blending tanks at various regulated manufacturing sites. So-called chloride stress corrosion is a common cause of cracking, as it has the potential to release stored energy in the steel. This can be tensile stress caused by small variations in the thickness of stainless steel plates and residual tensile stress caused by welding, grinding, and bending deformation of the steel plates during fabrication. Temperature variations during cleaning will often promote release of such stress forces and lead to cracking.


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Gappscan
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EIT International is an industry leader in the development and supply of environmentally friendly preventative controls and detection systems for the liquid food processing, nutraceutical, pharma-medical and petrochemical industries.
Gappscan™ is the most advanced and eco-friendly integrity testing solution for heat exchangers to the dairy, food, brewery and pharmaceutical industries. Heat exchanger testing is an important procedure for the early detection of internal leaks inside the equipment. If not found in good time, the product can become contaminated and spoilt, leading to waste and potential expensive recall of finished product.
Most cracked heat exchanger plates will show no symptoms of defect. Gappscan™ has been developed specifically to detect cross contaminating defects as low as a few microns in size, and is the only test system that can accurately measure defect size which allows processors to predict when a heat exchanger may fail, preventing unnecessary shutdown of an exchanger.
There are many other types of test procedures including dyes, chemicals, pressure and gas, but all of these test sensitivities are reduced with volume and therefore unreliable when testing large heat exchangers. Traditional test methods can only pass or fail a heat exchanger, they cannot determine the size of the defect or the leakage rate.

Benefits of Gappscan™ compared to other technologies:
- Increase business project effectiveness of preventative maintenance programmes to your third party customers
- Increase efficiency of your servicing teams allowing for multiple tests over shorter time frame.
- Ability to monitor changes in heat exchanger behaviour and performance through regular on-site testing, avoiding the expense of prophylactic change.
- Adheres to your food and beverage customers Sustainability Programme through environmentally friendly technology that does not require any harmful dyes, chemicals, gases or gels.
- 100% accuracy in surface integrity and crack detection down to (1 micron) 30 microns (30um). Actual defect size can be gauged and measured against subsequent tests.
- Gappscan™ identifies and reports numerous cracks and defects, alternative technologies will detect these as a single isolated fail only.
- Deployed on all types of heat exchangers including plate and tubular
- Non-invasive integrity testing technology, no requirement to disassemble heat exchanger
- Minimal downtime, full on-site test carried out within 2 hours.
- Full test equipment contained in a single suitcase size holdall and operated by a single person.
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Pasflo
EIT International is an industry leader in the development and supply of environmentally friendly preventative controls and detection systems for the liquid food processing, nutraceutical, pharma-medical and petrochemical industries.
EIT International’s Pasflo™ system allows for non-intrusive pasteurisation validation to the liquid dairy, ice cream, brewery (cider) and juices industries without the need to stop production. Pasflo™ validates pasteurisation residents and flow rate during production.
The pasteurisation cycles devised for milk and juices often involve exposing the liquid to relatively high temperatures for very short lengths of time, the so-called high temperature, short time (HTST) pasteurisation we are most familiar with. The main advantage of Pasflo™ compared to other systems such as the conductivity test, is that it is completely non-intrusive and checks the holding time of the finished product, and not water.
The next generation of Pasflo™ will include verification to inline system as well as date and time stamp as well as on-line records for audit validation.

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Pasflo
EIT International is an industry leader in the development and supply of environmentally friendly preventative controls and detection systems for the liquid food processing, nutraceutical, pharma-medical and petrochemical industries.
EIT International’s Pasflo™ system allows for non-intrusive pasteurisation validation to the liquid dairy, ice cream, brewery (cider) and juices industries without the need to stop production. Pasflo™ validates pasteurisation residents and flow rate during production.
The pasteurisation cycles devised for milk and juices often involve exposing the liquid to relatively high temperatures for very short lengths of time, the so-called high temperature, short time (HTST) pasteurisation we are most familiar with. The main advantage of Pasflo™ compared to other systems such as the conductivity test, is that it is completely non-intrusive and checks the holding time of the finished product, and not water.
The next generation of Pasflo™ will include verification to inline system as well as date and time stamp as well as on-line records for audit validation.
