CONTAMINATION TRACKING
Find the Source Before It Spreads
Track every contamination event back to its source—bad substrate, dirty workspace, or failed sterilization—before it destroys your entire operation.
HOW IT WORKS
Trace contamination to its root cause
Scan contaminated items and log details: bacterial, mold, or yeast; severity level; location in batch; and visual observations with photos.
See if siblings from the same culture are affected. Track back through generations to find the contamination source—agar plate, liquid culture, or grain spawn.
Analytics reveal trends: specific substrate batches, work areas, team members, or sterilization equipment linked to higher contamination rates.
BENEFITS
What you gain
When one batch shows contamination, instantly identify related batches from the same culture or substrate. Quarantine and inspect before losing hundreds of bags.
Don't just discard contaminated batches—trace back through genealogy to discover if the problem started at the agar culture, grain spawn, or substrate stage.
Track contamination rates by strain, substrate recipe, and sterilization method. Identify which techniques are working and which need improvement.
Flag contaminated mother cultures before they spread to production batches. Save your genetic library from cross-contamination that could ruin months of selection work.
USE CASES
Real-world applications
Multiple blocks show green mold contamination:
- Scan contaminated blocks and mark as "Mold - Trichoderma"
- Check genealogy—all affected blocks from Substrate Batch #47
- Quarantine remaining 60 blocks from the same substrate batch
- Investigate substrate supplier and switch sources to prevent repeat
An agar plate shows bacterial contamination:
- Mark the contaminated plate in MycoQR with photos and notes
- See the plate was used to inoculate 10 grain spawn jars yesterday
- Inspect all 10 jars immediately—catch 3 showing early bacterial growth
- Discard affected jars before bacterial contamination spreads further
Contamination rates suddenly double:
- Review contamination analytics for the past 30 days
- Notice pattern: batches sterilized in Autoclave #2 have 35% contamination
- Batches from Autoclave #1 only show 8% contamination (normal)
- Service Autoclave #2—find faulty pressure gauge causing under-sterilization
Explore more features
QR Code Tracking
End the panic of searching through messy notes when contamination hits. One scan tells you exactly what's in that bag, and where it came from, so that you can make informed decisions before problems spread.
Batch Management
Ditch the spreadsheet nightmare and sticky notes. See your entire operation at a glance—which batches are thriving, which need attention, and which are ready to harvest.
Inventory & Invoicing
Turn any tracked item into sellable inventory. Sell cultures, spawn, substrate blocks, and harvested yields. Auto-generated invoices, customer tracking, and full traceability from sale back to source.
Analytics Dashboard
See exactly which techniques work, which substrates fail, and which conditions predict success—so you stop guessing and start profiting from every grow.
Stage Monitoring
Know exactly which batches need attention today, which are ready tomorrow, and which are falling behind—without checking every single bag.
Data Preservation
Stop living in fear of data loss. Your entire operation—every batch, note, and measurement—automatically backed up and accessible even offline.
Ready to stop contamination in its tracks?
See how contamination tracking can protect your operation from costly losses