The most wonderful aspect of the MIT 1000a is the machine needs no lab to do the testing. The Molecular Detection System just announced by 3M cannot do spot checking with immediate results while food is being processed and packaged. Then you still have to buy the test kits for the Molecular Detection System; where, all you need is water to buy for the MIT 1000a. The Molecular Detection System is simply a smaller version of the last model, to save space. Two testing processes were put into one to make testing faster, but not nearly faster than the MIT 1000a. MIT 1000a laser technology to read pathogens is new innovation and ingenious, to say the least.