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Ballast Water Regulations – Are you Ready?
What’s inside: Introducing harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens to new environments through ships’ ballast water is a significant threat to the world’s oceans, posing severe environmental, economic and public... Read More
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Case study: Using qPCR to rapidly identify and mitigate Legionella risk in a large US college residence building
What’s inside: LuminUltra’s GeneCount® system was used to audit the residence building of a major US college campus that was suspected to harbour Legionella. Samples were collected from four... Read More
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CDC-ELITE Lab Validation for LuminUltra’s GeneCount®
What’s inside: LuminUltra’s GeneCount ® qPCR solution was found to be 100% accurate at identifying Legionella species and Legionella pneumophila from blind samples prepared for proficiency testing at CDC... Read More
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Protecting our waterways: how to leverage Microbial Source Tracking for fecal contamination management
This webinar discusses Fecal contamination that can affect your waterways, resulting in fines, reputational damage, health threats and economic losses from closures.... Read More
Case Study
BQUA Plus test kit evaluation for a local port authority ballast water policy
What’s inside: Ballast water management policies are implemented to prevent the release of invasive and non-native species or pathogens to marine ecosystems from the discharge of untreated ballast water... Read More
Article
CEO Pat Whalen named Water’s Next Business Leader of the year
FREDERICTON, NB, June 3, 2022 – LuminUltra Technologies Ltd. CEO Pat Whalen was named 2022 Business Leader of the year by Water’s Next at the Canadian Water Summit in... Read More
COVID-19
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Where Next? Wastewater-Based Epidemiology as a Tool for Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogen Surveillance
This webinar discusses research performed in collaboration with ChromaCode Inc. where wastewater extracts from the GeneCount® SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Test Kit were analyzed for antimicrobial resistance markers using ChromaCode’s High... Read More
Article
SARS-CoV-2 and the future of wastewater-based epidemiology
This article was first published in the March/April 2022 issue of Water & Wastewater Asia. Wastewater-based epidemiology is becoming more widely known as a tool in the fight against... Read More
Article
Wastewater epidemiology for the fight against COVID-19
Wastewater epidemiology gives health authorities the tools they need to pinpoint which communities are most affected and to make informed, science-based decisions about next steps, like targeted clinical testing.... Read More
Clinical Diagnostics
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Antigen vs. Antibody vs. qPCR: FAQ about tests for COVID-19
It’s more important than ever to be aware of the tests used in public health responses to viral outbreaks. In this post, we’ll discuss antigen, antibody, and PCR tests... Read More
Article
Introducing our complete COVID-19 clinical solution
LuminUltra Technologies Ltd. is proud to announce that we’ve submitted our GeneCount® COVID-19 RT-qPCR Assay Kit to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorization and Health... Read More
Wastewater
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Where Next? Wastewater-Based Epidemiology as a Tool for Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogen Surveillance
This webinar discusses research performed in collaboration with ChromaCode Inc. where wastewater extracts from the GeneCount® SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Test Kit were analyzed for antimicrobial resistance markers using ChromaCode’s High... Read More
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Save time and improve your process with rapid, accurate and portable wastewater testing solutions
Is your process running at peak performance? Most wastewater operational challenges – bulking, upsets, excessive costs, and non-compliance – stem from inaccurate measurements of the true, living biomass in... Read More
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COVID-19 wastewater testing: Why it matters, how it works and how to get started
Wastewater surveillance testing offers rapid, non-invasive insight into the health of communities, workplaces and other institutions. With proven capability to provide early warning of infection, COVID-19 wastewater testing is... Read More
Legionella
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CDC-ELITE Lab Validation for LuminUltra’s GeneCount®
What’s inside: LuminUltra’s GeneCount ® qPCR solution was found to be 100% accurate at identifying Legionella species and Legionella pneumophila from blind samples prepared for proficiency testing at CDC... Read More
Webinar
Protecting our waterways: how to leverage Microbial Source Tracking for fecal contamination management
This webinar discusses Fecal contamination that can affect your waterways, resulting in fines, reputational damage, health threats and economic losses from closures.... Read More
Article
How Legionella-specific tests can be used in the monitoring tool kit
Legionella, the bacteria responsible for causing Legionnaire’s disease, is one of the most significant sources of waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. It’s also largely preventable: investigations by... Read More
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion
Article
Impact of sample preservation protocols for metagenomics analysis in the oilfield
The lack of standardized protocols and the remote nature of oilfields are major concerns when it comes to sample preservation to maintain the integrity of the microbial population during... Read More
Article
Mitigating Reservoir Souring through Biological Monitoring
Professionals in the upstream oil and gas production industry have been aware of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) in oilfield fluids since the early 1900’s however, it wasn’t until the 1990’s... Read More
Article
Most Wanted Microbes – Methanogens
From the editor: This is the thirteenth post in an ongoing series profiling microorganisms of particular significance in water and wastewater systems. In this series we will cover... Read More
Industrial Process Water
Article
How Can I Use NGS to Improve My Industrial Process?
First of all, what is NGS and what does it do? Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a tool that has revolutionized many fields of study. So far DNA sequencing has... Read More
Case Study
Microbiological Monitoring of Paints Using 2nd Generation ATP®
See a paint manufacturer’s full return-on-investment analysis of investing in 2nd Generation ATP® testing from LuminUltra to prevent product defects. What’s inside: Microbiological contamination of paints can cause major... Read More
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Using ATP to Improve Surface Treatment Operations
What’s inside: Problem: An aircraft production facility’s surface treatment system was experiencing issues associated with excessive microbiological growth within the coating system’s recirculation loops. These issues led to increased... Read More
Marine
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Ballast Water Regulations – Are you Ready?
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BQUA Plus test kit evaluation for a local port authority ballast water policy
What’s inside: Ballast water management policies are implemented to prevent the release of invasive and non-native species or pathogens to marine ecosystems from the discharge of untreated ballast water... Read More
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BQUA PLUS validation for commissioning testing of ballast water management systems
What’s inside: Ballast tanks within ships are filled with water to provide stability during transportation of cargo. The ballast water that is discharged at the ship’s destination may carry... Read More
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Case study: Validating your ballast water management system
What’s inside: Ballast water helps to stabilize ships during transport. It’s drawn in at a ship’s origin, along with local aquatic organisms and plants, and then discharged at its... Read More
Drinking Water
Article
Tips to reducing water consumption
The importance of conserving water Water is essential to human life. Every person on the planet, no matter the region, requires the same basic daily amount for survival. That... Read More
Article
Harness the power of one bacterium to remove PFAS from the environment
What are PFAS? Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a family of synthetic organic molecules, which are not naturally occurring in nature. Due to the strong carbon-fluorine bond present... Read More
Article
World Water Day, 2020
A Long-Standing Tradition Since 1993, the United Nations has used World Water Day to highlight its water conservation and management work and focus the world’s attention on water issues.... Read More
Food
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Gut bugs affect overall health, and serve as individual microbial fingerprints
The microbial population of our gastrointestinal tracts is a hot topic these days, with researchers regularly making new discoveries as to how the state of the bugs in our... Read More
Biocide
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