BetaStar® Advanced for Tetracyclines
Item No. BSATET
- Test for all three tetracycline antibiotics in just five minutes
- Analyze with NEOGEN’s Raptor® reader, which can test three samples at once
Just add milk
BetaStar® Advanced for Tetracyclines is a rapid detection test for tetracycline, chlortetracycline and oxytetracycline in raw, commingled cow milk, offering results in just five minutes. It holds approvals from the AOAC-RI and the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments, with no dilution step required for confirmation testing. BetaStar Advanced is designed to work exclusively with NEOGEN’s state-of-the-art Raptor Integrated Analysis Platform, which controls the volume, temperature and runtime of up to three test strips at once — allowing you to simply add milk and walk away.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Analyte | Tetracyclines |
| Approvals |
AOAC-RI, FDA, NCIMS |
| Brand | BetaStar® |
| Incubation Time | 5 Minutes |
| Limit of Detection | 300 ppb |
| Package Dimensions | 6.60 IN x 5.60 IN x 2.00 IN |
| Package Weight | 0.20 LB |
| Platform | Lateral Flow |
| Quantity per Package | 25 tests |
| Result Type | Qualitative |
| Testing Time | 2.00 |
| Time to Result | 5 Minutes |
Additional Information
BetaStar Advanced Performance Information
| ppb | Oxytetracycline | Chlortetracycline | Tetracycline |
| 0 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 150 | 40% | 0% | 17% |
| 200 | 100% | 13% | 93% |
| 250 | 100% | 87% | 100% |
| 300 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Tolerance/safe level (ppb) 1 | 300 | 300 | 300 |
| Calculated 90 – 95% 2 | 189.6 | 254.3 | 244.8 |
1 The tolerance level for each of the tetracycline antibiotics has been set by the FDA as the sum of all tetracyclines.
2 The 90/95 sensitivity level was calculated from data collected during validation testing by a third party laboratory. Sensitivity was based on testing multiple levels of each tetracycline antibiotic samples per concentration.
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Technology
The sample is wicked through a reagent zone, which contains antibodies and receptors conjugated to colloidal gold particles. If beta-lactams, tetracyclines, chloramphenicol or streptomycin are present, they will be captured by their particle-antibody complex. The drug-antibody-particle complex then is wicked onto a membrane, which contains a separate zone for each drug conjugated to a protein carrier. These independent zones capture any uncomplexed drug antibody, allowing the particles to concentrate and form a visible line. As the level of a particular drug in the sample increases, free drug molecules will complex with the antibody-gold particles. This allows less antibody-gold to be captured in the test zones. Therefore, as the concentration of a drug in the sample increases, the test line density decreases. The membrane also contains a control zone where an immune complex present in the reagent zone is captured by an antibody, forming a visible line. The control line will always form regardless of the presence of the drug, ensuring the strip is functioning properly.
Training
Our customers’ success is our shared success. Our experts are ready to train you and your team on our solutions, so you can rest easy knowing procedures are performed properly and yield accurate results. In addition, we provide certificates upon completion of training to provide you with the documentation needed for audit traceability.