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Legionella Test Kits
Why It Works:
- The Legionella is fast, easy to use, accurate and can be used anywhere, removing the need to transport a sample to a lab.
- While a positive result is bad news, it is better to know immediately so that you can take remedial action, prevent infection, protect staff and clients and consequently your reputation and business.
- Imagine if your system was infected and you did not know. Without a rapid test, your uncertainty will continue for 10-14 days waiting for laboratory results. During this time you may continue to expose your staff/public or have to shut down facilities to prevent exposure.
- Once you have taken remedial action, you can use our test to check the impact. Our test will let you know in 25 minutes if there is still a problem.
- Effective remedial action should completely remove all traces of bacteria from your system within 24 hours giving a negative test result on the test.
- By detecting antigen, rather than relying on culture cells, our test may give a better warning of Legionella growth within a system.
- Test Kits have an 18 months shelf life from manufacturer (stored at room temperature (<30C) in original packaging).
- These Test Kits should not be used as the sole method for assessing the presence of Legionella. If results with this rapid test indicate the presence of Legionella, then confirmation with a laboratory culture test is essential.
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- View complete technical specifications, details for each kit and product video.
Field Test Directions
Swab Test Directions
 System Test Kit
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many tests are in the legionella test kit? That depends on the option you chose. The L56B006601 is for one test only and it will give you a simple positive/negative reading.
Does the single test come with any Analysis report for the results? No, the single test is not that type of test. The result will be a reliable positive/negative reading which should be followed up by in-depth lab-style testing in case the test result comes back positive.
Does the single legionella test conform to ISO11731?
The Legionella tests we offer are not ISO 11371. However, these tests are validated under ISO 17994, see below for more information:
The guidelines are based on the international standard ISO 11731. In fact, in the UK the Approved Code of Practice and guidance for the control of Legionella bacteria in water systems (ACOP L8) only supports the use of the method described in this standard, whose use is mandatory in the Legionella tests made for cooling towers.
In the new Part 2 guidelines for hot and cold water systems, ACOP introduces the use of alternative testing methods in so far as they are validated with the ISO 17994: Water quality – Criteria for establishing an equivalence between microbiological methods.
The ISO 17994 describes criteria for establishing a statistical equivalence between microbiological methods to compare the results obtained by one method with those results obtained by the reference method (in this case the ISO 11731). Since the ISO 11731 is based on counting CFU (colony-forming units), any other method of detection or quantification of any other Legionella property/units (e.g. the DNA – expressed in GU, Antigen, etc.), will give a different number and therefore cannot be defined as equivalent, even if these methods have been proven to detect Legionella better than the reference method.
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Legionella Testing Kit 
