Industries we serve
Make water decisions sooner while laboratory results catch up.
Bactiquick gives water operators, regional councils, environmental professionals, food producers and primary industries Real Time field results in just 15 minutes, enabling frontline decisions at the point of sampling. Teams can respond immediately to changing conditions and send adverse results for accredited laboratory confirmation when required.
Make earlier decisions with current field information, backed by accredited laboratory confirmation where required.
Explore how Bactiquick works, review the science and evidence, or see the Bactiquick Tester.
Why real-time screening matters
The operational problem is often the delay, not the lack of a laboratory.
Act on current conditions
Water quality can change while samples are being transported and processed. An on-site signal helps teams decide what to inspect, isolate or monitor next.
Act on adverse results
Use earlier field information to identify adverse results and locations that require accredited confirmation, escalation or follow-up.
Extend practical monitoring
Screen at remote, dispersed or time-sensitive sites where courier time, cost and delayed results can limit useful investigation.
Source water and stormwater
Earlier field insight for source water, stormwater and contamination investigations.
Territorial authorities, water-service organisations and environmental teams investigate source-water quality, stormwater networks and contamination events. When conditions are changing, waiting 24 hours or more for laboratory results can delay investigation and frontline decisions.
- Screen multiple locations during an incident to narrow the likely source.
- Prioritise inspection, resampling, isolation or operational response.
- Investigate source-water changes and stormwater contamination.
- Identify adverse results that require accredited laboratory confirmation.
- Extend practical monitoring at remote or courier-sensitive sites.
Regional councils and safe-to-swim monitoring
Help communities know where and when it is safe to swim.
Councils monitor rivers, lakes and coastal bathing waters so communities can make informed decisions about recreational water use. Laboratory turnaround can mean the result describes yesterday’s water.
Bactiquick gives field teams an indication in just 15 minutes, while they are still at the site, so they can investigate an adverse result, test another location and focus follow-up sampling sooner.
- Add current field insight to scheduled freshwater safe-to-swim monitoring.
- Test upstream, downstream and nearby sites while the field team is still deployed.
- Respond sooner to rainfall events, suspected discharges and unexpected changes.
- Help prioritise public communication, follow-up sampling and laboratory confirmation.
- Extend practical coverage where travel and courier delays constrain programmes.
Bactiquick complements established council monitoring and accredited laboratory programmes. Coastal and enterococci-related applications remain subject to technical validation and acceptance.
Environmental consultants and testing providers
A field-ready service tool across multiple client sites.
Environmental consultancies can use Bactiquick within monitoring, consent, contamination and investigation programmes. A portable operational screen helps professional teams choose their next sampling point, focus follow-up work and give clients useful information before the laboratory report arrives.
- Water-quality and consent-compliance investigations.
- Stormwater, surface-water and groundwater programmes.
- Spill response and progressive source tracking.
- Recurring monitoring across several clients and locations.
- Added-value screening alongside IANZ-accredited laboratory analysis.
TAIC supports a protected professional-channel model: where a consultancy deploys Bactiquick within an existing account, the consultant retains ownership of that client relationship.
Food and beverage production
Screen water where it affects product, process and release decisions.
The strongest production applications are where water contacts food, forms a principal ingredient, supports hygiene systems or influences a time-sensitive plant decision. Bactiquick can provide an earlier operational indication while approved food-safety and laboratory systems remain in place.
- Prepared produce and packhouses: wash water for ready-to-eat, cut, peeled or packed produce.
- Meat and poultry: process water, hygiene investigation and operational assurance.
- Seafood and aquaculture: processing water and selected growing-water applications.
- Dairy: defined high-consequence plant decisions alongside established laboratory capability.
- Beverage and bottled water: ingredient-water sources and source-water investigation.
Product fit depends on the water-related microbiological tests already performed, current turnaround time, decision consequence and how screening will integrate with approved systems.
Primary production and agricultural water
Use earlier water-quality insight where farm and growing decisions cannot wait.
Growers, packhouses, processors and assurance programmes rely on irrigation, spray, harvest-contact and on-farm water sources. When water quality has an operational consequence, a 15-minute field result can help teams investigate changing conditions and decide where further sampling or laboratory confirmation is needed.
- Irrigation and spray-water investigation.
- Harvest-contact and produce-assurance programmes.
- On-farm water sources after heavy rain or suspected contamination.
- Progressive source tracking across bores, tanks, dams and waterways.
- Earlier decisions about resampling, isolation or operational response.
Additional applications and channels
Reach dispersed water users through the organisations that already support them.
Iwi, hapū and community monitoring
Support recurring monitoring across culturally and locally significant waterways, iwi-council programmes, catchments and community-led investigations where timely information changes what happens next.
Self-supplied water sources
Screen source water after heavy rain, abnormal results or suspected contamination at schools, camps, holiday parks, tourism facilities and remote sites.
Water-source monitoring services
Enable service providers to carry one tester across multiple customers for source-water monitoring, contamination investigation and targeted follow-up sampling.
Remote and courier-sensitive sites
Get an operational signal at locations where distance and transport time make conventional turnaround especially difficult.
Cross-sector incident response
Use the same field workflow for spills, stormwater events, suspected contamination and progressive source tracking across sectors.
1 Screen on site
Collect and test near the point of sampling.
2 Decide what happens next
Investigate, resample, isolate or escalate sooner.
3 Confirm where required
Send adverse results for prescribed laboratory analysis when required.
Talk to Bactiquick New Zealand
What water-testing delay do you need to solve?
Tell us where you sample, what decision is waiting and how laboratory turnaround affects your operation. We will follow up by phone and can arrange an online meeting.