What We Do
Your one-stop shop for quick and effective internal inspections
Hygiene Diagnostics AB was founded in 2016 in Knivsta by civil engineer Frank Axelsson. Today, we support businesses across multiple industries with effective measurement methods, instruments, and training programs that make self-monitoring easier, faster, and more reliable—particularly in healthcare, sterilization technology, environmental and health protection, and food safety.
Business Concept
Our mission is to provide a one-stop-shop offering methods for quick and effective self-inspections that help our customers manage all hygiene risks.
Mission
Our mission is to prevent and reduce the spread of disease and infections in the community. We ensure that our customers have access to the right products and the right knowledge to achieve the highest possible standards of hygiene.
Vision
We aim to be a global leader in hygiene control by developing methods in collaboration with our customers that work to improve everyone’s health.
A company in tune with the times
Inadequate hygiene controls based on subjective judgment or flawed methods are a common quality assurance problem in our society. This can result in significant costs associated with quality deficiencies and serious hygiene issues forcompanies and organizations, ultimately affecting patients and consumers. This may involve healthcare-associated infections,, food poisoning, or costly product recalls with devastating effects on brands and customer trust.
Hygiene Diagnostics’ products and services for objective hygiene monitoring are based on established methods derived from many years of successful consulting experience in industries such as life sciences, the food industry, and healthcare.
Our customers include hospitals, veterinarians, dental clinics, medical technology companies, industrial firms, food producers, restaurants and hotels, facility management companies, cleaning companies, hygiene consultants, trainers, inspectors, public swimming pools, schools, gyms, senior care facilities, and many other businesses that require quick and effective self-inspections.
We help our customers manage and prevent risks and quality issues, which always pays off in the long run.
Frank Axelsson, CEO of Hygiene Diagnostics AB
Milestones
2016 – Hygiene Diagnostics is founded. The company focuses on selling ATP-meter the healthcare and long-term care sectors.
2017 – Hygiene Diagnostics becomes an authorized distributor in Sweden for 3M’s food safety and hygiene control products. The product portfolio includes the Clean-Trace™ and Petrifilm™ brands. The flagship product in our range is the Clean-Trace™ ATP for rapid cleaning verification.
2020 – A partnership is launched with the Argentine medtech company Terragene® to sell and market its innovative chemical and biological indicators and tests for sterilization processes. Well-known brands include BIONOVA®, Chemdye®, and Integron®.
2021 –The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant attention to nearly all of our products, and our revenue has doubled during the pandemic.
During the year, we became authorized distributors for Glo Germ the Nordic region and secured the distributorship for the HandInScan Semmelweis scanner, a unique hand hygiene training system.
We are also launching a partnership with Hygiena British Hygiena. We can now offer their rapid methods for detecting allergens, mycotoxins, and foodborne pathogens. The latter includes the award-winning BAX® PCR for pathogen detection.
2022 – Hygiene Diagnostics begins the process of obtaining certification under ISO (quality management) and ISO 14001 (environmental management)
2023 – Hygiene Diagnostics begins a partnership with Infolands in the area of QHSE programs to market their Zenya software suite. We also become the Nordic distributor Spotsee environmental monitoring indicators. Neogen 3M’s Food Safety business. Hygiene Diagnostics signs a new distribution agreement with Neogen.
2024 – Hygiene Diagnostics is expanding its ATP product portfolio ATP Neogen’s AccuPoint ATP and the Clean-trace —an LM1 variant designed for healthcare applications.
2025 – We are partnering with Heyfair to market and sell their innovative hand hygiene training method.