Food Allergens/Adulterations Neogen’s BioKits for food allergen kits include two formats. The RAPID 3-D tests make it simple to screen for the presence of low levels of allergens in food products and environmental swabs virtually anywhere. Sample preparation and testing take less than 10 minutes. The BioKits range of microwell assay test kits have been developed for use in the detection of quantification of allergens in foods. The BioKits food adulteration kits are microwell assays and wheat or soy adulteration in pasta and meats respectively.
Species Identification The identification of species content is performed in many countries for a variety of reasons including economic, ethnic and safety. Such identification may be designed to prevent the substitution of meat destined for human consumption with that of unsuitable or inferior species, or may be of importance in various religious communities where consumption of a particular species is proscribed. Concern about the consumption of ruminants (cattle, sheep) infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, a.k.a. "mad cow" disease) led the FDA to ban the feeding of rendered ruminant by-products, such as meat and bone meal (MBM), to other ruminants. Neogen Corporation supplies a variety of test methods including lateral flow, microwell, and PCR (DNA) based methods for species identification.
