Building on the legacy of previous generations, BactoScan™ 5 enables laboratories to analyze bacteria in raw milk more efficiently and with an unprecedented level of safety, making it easier than ever before to improve food safety and ensure milk quality.
Safe and efficient milk bacteria analyzer at a low cost of ownership, enabled by improved operational efficiency, reduced operator steps and less handling of reagents.
Raw milk from cow, goat, sheep, and buffalo milk
Individual Bacteria Count (IBC/ml)
Less hassle. More results. Better business.
The BactoScan™ 5, milk bacteria analyzer, exploits advances in instrument hardware and the latest in software and networking connectivity to achieve new levels of productivity in raw milk analysis. With a capacity to analyze between 65 and 200 milk samples per hour, BactoScan 5 ensures a high throughput of milk samples, freeing up operator time while ensuring fast response to dairies and farmers.
BactoScan 5 enables safer and more cost-efficient screening of raw milk for improved food safety and milk quality assurance. Benefit from superior instrument uptime, flexible capacity and fewer operator steps for an optimised workflow. At the same time, BactoScan 5 reduces human error and time spent on reagent preparation, maintenance, and cleaning while responsibly lowering the use of chemicals and waste.
Accuracy in 4 steps
BactoScan 5 processes a sample in 4 steps.
1. The sample is stirred and pumped into a tube and carefully sub-sampled.
2. The sample is dosed into an incubation wheel together with staining solution and enzyme for
staining and homogenization.
3. The stained sample is passed through the flow cell and excited by a green laser. A lens and
optical filter pick up the signals emitted by passing bacteria.
4. Results are sent to your LIMS via FossIntegrator™. To ensure optimal results, automatic cleaning
is initiated between each sample.
Bacteria under control. Milk quality on the rise
Milk quality today has improved remarkably since the 1980’s. In the diagram above, we clearly see that the amount of milk samples with low bacteria content has increased over the past decades. This change suggests that significant improvements, particularly in terms of farm hygiene, have contributed to the improved quality and safety of milk.
These improvements and the resulting high quality of milk we see today has been enabled by cost-efficient technology such as BactoScan™, allowing analysis of large numbers of samples, which was the basis for including bacteria as a milk payment parameter. That way, dairies could financially incentivize milk producers to produce high quality milk.
Always stable, high uptime with a connected service solution
With BactoScan™ 5 you can benefit from FOSS IQX™ software solutions that allow you to boost productivity and evolve your laboratory operations. Automatic backup and reporting ensure that the data is safe, traceable and accessible from anywhere. Log in to your PC to check results, monitor instrument performance and get access to reports.
FOSS IQX™
A native SaaS complement to your new BactoScanTM 5. FOSS IQX helps you make informed decision for improving quality control, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. The IQX Device Management workspace helps you better monitor your SOPs, overall instrument health, optimize your uptime, and more importantly, help you stay in control. Explore Device Management and our other workspaces on IQX.net.
Change is happening throughout the dairy industry. Farms are consolidating and milk testing requirements are changing. Testing frequency, cost pressure, demands for faster turn-around time, and trustworthiness of analytical results are all increasing, adding pressure on busy laboratories. At the same time, climate change may lead to changing microbial flora, highlighting the fact that continuous testing and monitoring is essential. Finally, environmental requirements for laboratories are subject to continuous development as well.
In this evolving landscape, the ability to increase uptime, improve workflow, and lower the cost of ownership, is the key to ensuring a competitive edge.
BactoScan 5 introduces a simplified reagent concept that significantly reduces preparation steps, such as mixing rinse and sheath solutions, rehydration solutions and enzymes, to a minimum. Ready to use reagent kits speed up the preparation phase, ensuring simple, fast and safe mixing of reagents.
• Free up operators to do other tasks
• Increase safety thanks to reduced handling of hazardous reagents
• Reduced operator error removes the risk of contamination
• Low reagent consumption and low waste for environmental protection
• Lower reagent costs per sample
With BactoScan 5, operators no longer need to calculate the expected daily use of reagents thanks to automatic dosing of staining solution (dye) and enzyme. This automated process minimizes handling and mixing steps, streamlining daily operations, saving operator time, and making staff onboarding faster and easier.
The BactoScan 5 reagent concept reduces reagent use by 15-20%.
• No use of reagents during standby mode.
• Reduced amount of rinse/sheath during analysis.
• Less waste thanks to automatic enzyme dosing and rehydration kit providing one reagent for 3 control samples.
• Eliminate use of harsh chemicals such as boric acid for safer and more sustainable operations.
Upgrading to BactoScan 5 means significant savings due to the reduced use of reagents and reduced operator time. At the same time increased efficiency and uptime means that you can increase your throughput and ensure maximum profit from your operations.
| Performance |
| Measuring range*: 1,000 - 150,000,000 IBC/ml |
| Performance range: 10,000 - 20,000,000 IBC/ml |
| Repeatability | Reproducibility (between BactoScan 5 instruments): | ||||
| Range (IBC x 1000/ml) |
sr log10 units | Typical sr log10 units | Range (IBC x 1000/ml) |
sr log10 units | Typical sr log10 units |
| 10 - 50 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 10 - 50 | 0.11 | 0.08 |
| 51 - 200 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 51 - 200 | 0.07 | 0.06 |
| >200 | 0.04 | 0.02 | >200 | 0.06 | 0.04 |
| Entire range | 0.05 | ||||
| Carry-over effect | < 0.5 % (uncompensated) |
| Sample type | Raw milk from cow, sheep, goat, buffalo |
| Analysis capacity | 65, 100, 130, 150, 200 samples/hour |
| Working factor | Standard 300, (optional: 95, 600 and 1200) |
| Accuracy | Typical Sy,x<0.25 log10 units in the entire measuring range |
| Reference or anchor method: | Standard Plate Count (SPC) CFU/ml**. ISO 21187 | IDF 196: 2021; ISO 4833-1:2013 and ISO 16297 I IDF 161: 2020 |
Application data |
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| Analysis time | 9 minutes (to the first analysis result) |
| Sample intake | approx. 4.5 ml |
| Sample temperature during analysis | 2-4 °C - non preserved raw milk samples 2-42 °C - Azidiol preserved raw milk samples |
| Sample quality | Raw milk of normal composition and good quality. Unpreserved or preserved with azidiol |
| Instrument management | |
| Networking software | IQX™ |
*Defined by limit of detection. **IBC can be used as an alternative method to the IDF 100B: 1991 and AOAC 986.33 reference methods for the rapid and accurate determination of the hygienic quality of cow, sheep, goat and buffalo raw milk for payment purposes. |
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