Chemicals used in industry and science, namely - washing solutions used to clean laboratory equipment, distilled water, rinsing solutions used to rinse laboratory equipment, reagents used in testing for the presence of microbes and other contaminants, diagnostic preparations used in testing for the presence of microbes and other contaminants, bioluminescent reagents used in testing for the presence of microbes and other contaminants, reconstitution buffers used to reconstitute bioluminescent reagents, releasing agents used to release substances to be tested for by bioluminescent reagents, dilution buffers used to dilute reconstituted bioluminescent reagents, depleted water that has been depleted of contaminants that may otherwise influence tests using bioluminescent reagents, quenching solutions used to arrest or slow the activity of bioluminescent reagents, total culture mediums including nutrients used to culture microbes, enzyme preparations used in testing for the presence of microbes and other contaminants, control chemicals used to reconstitute enzyme preparations in liquid form, control, preparations of known concentration used as positive controls in tests utilizing bioluminescent reagents and kits for testing for the presence of microbes and other contaminants, and comprising all or any combination of the above-specified solutions, preparations, reagents, buffers, culture mediums and enzyme preparations

Laboratory and immunoassay apparatus and instruments for detecting microbial contamination, namely - luminometers, printers for use with luminometers, microplates, 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 presence of microbes and other contaminants, and comprising all or combinations of the above-specified microplates, filter plates, sample manifolds, incubation plates, vacuum pumps, pipettes, culture plates, swabs, test tubes, vials, syringes, injectors, cuvette racks, pipette tips, and cuvettes; component parts for the foregoing