For fast certainty: Detect SARS-CoV-2 with wastewater tests
Our early warning system for your wastewater plants, pipeline networks and facilities
Update as of Jan 2022. With regular wastewater testing, disease outbreaks of Covid-19 can be detected and prevented at an early stage in cities, communities, and also in companies. New: Eurofins Environmental companies can also identify the new fast-spreading Omicron variant in wastewater nationwide. Read about the benefits of wastewater monitoring for you as a company in this article.
SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring for companies – your advantages at a glance
To protect the health of their workforce and prevent business losses due to disease outbreaks and quarantine measures, companies have already established extensive procedures. This includes, above all, testing employees for SARS-CoV-2.
Regular sampling and analysis of wastewater now offers you further decisive advantages: virus detection in wastewater reveals undetected disease progression at an early stage. It is a valuable indicator for assessing Covid-19 risks in your company in order to take preventive measures. Compared to testing individuals, wastewater monitoring allows you to draw conclusions more quickly and cost-effectively about currently emerging outbreaks and thus enables you to monitor the infection situation.
Wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 is an effective early warning system in the fight against Covid-19, which has been proven by experience in the Netherlands, Denmark and Luxembourg. In some cases, the virus could be detected in wastewater weeks before the first confirmed cases of the disease.
Tailor-made concepts for continuous monitoring of your wastewater
Eurofins PCR tests for the analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and its viral mutants provide you with fast and reliable information on whether and in what quantity the virus is present in wastewater. Our service covers the complete process from sampling to interpretation of the results. In this way, you always keep an eye on the safety situation in your plant and can initiate the right measures at an early stage - before a possible outbreak.
For more information on Eurofins wastewater monitoring please contact our expert for environmental analytics, Dr Peter Bachler.
