9 scientific and electric and electronic and weighing and measuring and checking and monitoring apparatus and instruments, namely luminometers, printers for use with luminometers, filter plates, sample manifolds which receive the sample to be tested and distribute the same to the filter plate, incubation plates in which test samples are incubated, vacuum pumps to draw the test sample from the sample manifold onto the filter plate, pipettes, culture plates, swabs, test tubes, vials, syringes, injectors, cuvette racks, pipette tips, cuvettes, hygiene devices used to test for microbial and other contaminants, computer hardware and software used to process the information derived from tests for microbial and other contaminants, and kits for testing for the pressure of microbes and other contaminants, and comprising all or combinations of the above-specified filter plates, sample manifolds, incubation plates, vacuum pumps, pipettes, culture plates, swabs, test tubes, vials, syringes, injectors, cuvette racks, pipette tips, and cuvettes