ALLERGENS
Elisa Systems addresses allergen test kit issues with latest product Elisa Systems utilises food allergen test kits to help combat allergen contamination in the food industry. Its latest offering, using egg proteins, is designed to take detection one step further.
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lisa System’s suite of allergen test kits are designed to help the food and beverage manufacturing industry mitigate the risk of cross contamination and the inadvertent presence of allergens in supplier ingredients. This helps ensure consumer safety and the burden and brand damage of product recalls. One of the latest offerings from Elisa Systems is its Processed Egg Residue detection
kit, ESEGGPR-48, which has been developed to provide a straightforward extraction procedure that facilitates high efficiency detection of egg protein in both non-processed and heatprocessed foods. Senior specialist analyst, Dr Richard Newton, told Food and Beverage Industry News the latest product offering from the company addressed an allergen, which is used in the food industry and can
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“We want to make our test kits cover the widest range of products that are available to make sure they function appropriately and that is a big challenge for test kit manufacturers in terms of screening foods for the presence of allergens.” represent a cross-contamination risk in many facilities. “The biggest cause of recalls over the past 10-15 years in
Australia is the result of undeclared allergens,” said Newton. “With this new kit, we wanted to address some of the biggest issues with
