The Technology

Mycometer technology is based on measuring an enzyme activity that selectively targets a specific group of organisms. Enzyme activity is measured using fluorescence technology which is highly sensitive.

When a sample is contacted with the enzyme substrate fluorescence is developed which can be measured in the fluorometer.

The technology is robust and gives very reproducible results as concluded by US-EPA^*who found that the reproducibility of samples tested by different technicians using two different instruments was very good with a relative standard deviation on the mean between 1.4 and 8.7 % when different assays and conditions were used. The calculated standard deviation calculation included variability contributions from all steps including both the air sampling, the analysis, the analyst and the instrumentation.