RIDASCREEN®FAST Hazelnut
Art. No. R6802
Product info
Intended use
RIDASCREEN®FAST Hazelnut is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for the quantitative analysis of hazelnut (e.g. traces of hazelnut) in food such as cereals, bakery products, ice cream and chocolate.
General Information
Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) is one of the most popular tree nuts worldwide. Hazelnuts are very common ingredients of chocolate products and are also consumed as snacks and in bakery products such as cookies. Hazelnut is also one of five foods, which are the most frequent cause of food allergies. In Central Europe, more than 90 % of hazelnut allergies are associated with an allergy to tree pollens. Consumption of a few milligrams of hazelnut can induce allergic reactions in sensitized individuals. Therefore, labelling of hazelnut containing products is very important and compulsory in the USA and the European Union as well as in many other countries. The main threat for sensitized individuals is contamination of hazelnut in food, which is intended to be hazelnutfree (e.g. hazelnut traces in chocolate which should not contain hazelnuts). Therefore, it is important to test foods which may have been contaminated during their production process for the presence of unintended traces of hazelnuts.
Besides being present as an ingredient, the allergen can be present as s a contamination in raw and cooked products. According to the regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011, hazelnut and products thereof must be declared on food labels. Similar regulations exist e.g. in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Benefits:
- Collaborative study (14 different laboratories) for hazelnut in dark chocolate resulted in recovery between 93.8 – 118.5 % (mean: 106.3 %). The ELISA has been validated for dark chocolate by the German BVL (§64 method LFGB).
- Specificity: no cross reactivities have been observed in a wide range of matrices (81).
- Sensitivity: one of the most sensitive ELISAs (0.17 – 0.22 mg / kg) on the market.
Dear customers,
we have started to provide the documents for our products in an electronic format. These are the Instructions for Use (IFU), the Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and the Certificate of Analysis (CoA). For batches placed on the market after 01 January 2024, you can find our documents on the eIFU portal eifu.r-biopharm.com/food.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Art. No | R6802 |
| Test format | Microtiter plate with 48 wells (6 strips with 8 removable wells each) |
| Sample preparation | Homogenization, extraction and centrifugation |
| Incubation time | 30 min Room temperature |
| LOD (Detection Limit) | 0.19 mg / kg (ppm) hazelnut (mean) 0.17 – 0.22 mg / kg (ppm) hazelnut* *depending on matrix |
| LOQ (Limit of quantification | 2.5 – 20 mg / kg (ppm) hazelnut |
| Validated matrices | Cereals, bakery products, ice cream and chocolate. |
| Detected analyte | Proteins from hazelnut |
| Available application notes |
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| Evaluation | Microtiter plate spectrophotometer (450 nm) |