In environmental monitoring identification QC operations of the pharmaceutical, medical device, health/cosmetics, and food industries, strain tracking is often useful in determining the source of microbes found to be contaminating the product. Criteria essential for environmental monitoring identification and efficiently tracking the origins of strains are speed, precision, and cost effectiveness. In research, the comparative analysis of microbial strains (both known and unknown) has a broad range of applications. Multivariate cluster analysis is a precise, rapid, accurate method of comparing and tracking microbial strains and providing environmental monitoring identification.