EuroProxima Ractopamine
Art. No.: 5061RACT
Product info
Intended use
EuroProxima Ractopamine is a competitive enzyme immunoassay for quantitative analysis of ractopamine in urine, liver, tissue, milk, feed and serum.
General Information
Ractopamine is a β-adrenergic agonist which acts as a nutrient repartitioning agent in livestock by diverting nutrients from fat deposition to the production of muscle tissues. Ractopamine is a growth promoter, its use is forbidden in EU countries. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ractopamine as a swine feed supplement. As a result all meat exported to EU must undergo a primary screening by a rapid method such as an immunoassay. EuroProxima B.V. has developed an enzyme immunoassay for screening of biological samples on the presence of ractopamine.
| Specifications | |
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| Art. No | 5061RACT |
| Test format | Microtiter plate with 96 wells (12 strips with 8 wells each). |
| Sample preparation | For mentioned matrices fast and efficient extraction methods are included in the kit description. |
| Incubation time | 1 h |
| LOD (Detection Limit) | Urine (1.0 μg/L (ppb)), liver (0.4 μg/kg), tissue (0.1 μg/kg), milk (0.04 μg/L), feed (2.0 μg/kg), serum (0.4 μg/L) |
| Validated matrices | Urine, liver, tissue, milk, feed and serum. |
| Detected analyte | Ractopamine in urine, liver, tissue, milk, feed and serum. |
| Evaluation | Microtiter plate spectrophotometer (450 nm) |
| Files | |
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| Instructions | English |
| MSDS | 5061-RACT.zip (English) |