Did you know that gluten may also be present in fruit juice and fish sticks? Cereal protein gluten is frequently used to maintain the form of drinks and convenience meals. As a result, many of [...]
The antibiotic Florfenicol is brought on the market under various brand names and is used to control infections in cattle, pigs, poultry, and aquaculture. The compound is an effective [...]
Pork does not belong in a kebab or a beef sausage. However, adulteration of meat products with cheaper pork is a common form of meat fraud. This is a problem – especially for consumers who [...]
Goat’s milk and sheep’s milk are increasingly popular alternatives to cow’s milk. However, consumers do not always get what they pay for. Adulteration with cow’s milk – [...]
At Easter, eggs are served particularly often. But they are also a popular ingredient in many other dishes and processed foods — a challenge for allergic people.
A natural improvement of the baby’s immune system is mediated by the protein Lactoferrin in mother’s milk.
ELISA is a test method with many advantages: it allows fast and specific quantitative analyses while being efficient and easy to perform. However, before a laboratory can start with ELISA, [...]
A while ago, the national wine institute in Argentina officially certified a wine as “gluten-free”. What’s behind this? May conventional wine actually contain gluten?
In Japan, the consumption of the delicacy Fugu, or puffer fish, leads to 30 – 50 intoxications of humans per year, resulting in severe illness and sometimes death. The cause for this is [...]
The use of the antibiotic colistin in poultry farming is not unusual – but it poses risks. Now, several countries have banned it.
With the launch of the EuroProxima Malachite Green Total ELISA, R-Biopharm offers a screening test that is fully validated for the measurement of malachite green, leucomalachite green, crystal [...]
Water soluble vitamins are a great challenge to detect in foodstuff. Different concentration levels and the extraction from various food matrices need different analytical methods and tools for [...]
The use of the broad-spectrum antibiotic Chloramphenicol (CAP) is totally banned world-wide since many years. As an alternative substance, Florfenicol is widely used, mainly in veterinary [...]
Lactoferrin is a very powerful protein: it has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-allergic properties. Lactoferrin isolated from bovine milk is [...]
Histamine is a biogenic amine which is naturally present in many foodstuffs – also in wine. Some people react to high histamine foods with headaches or other symptoms. More and more winemakers [...]
Codex standard, AOAC certification, R5 or G12 antibody: What does really matter in gluten analysis? We have collected 10 questions about gluten analysis that everyone in the food industry should [...]
The 20th Food Allergy Awareness Week will start on Sunday – a good opportunity to draw attention to a fairly unknown food intolerance: histamine intolerance. Here are five questions and answers [...]
Verotoxin-producing EHEC bacteria are a common cause of food-borne infections. Here’s what food producers should know about the risk associated with the pathogen and the methods of detection.
Together with the Fresenius University and the Geisenheim University, R-Biopharm is developing an improved ELISA method for the detection of food allergens. The federal state of Hesse is [...]
Certified reference material plays a decisive role in food analysis. But so far, suitable material was missing for allergen analysis. Now, MoniQA Association has presented the first validated [...]
Producers of gluten-free food must comply with certain requirements in terms of labelling, manufacturing and analysis. From Codex Alimentarius to the AOECS standard and EU regulations: We have [...]
The world is celebrating “World Egg Day” today. It’s no surprise that eggs are popular: they are affordable, versatile, tasty and packed with proteins. However, eggs are a major allergy trigger, [...]
The world is celebrating “World Egg Day” today. It’s no surprise that eggs are popular: they are affordable, versatile, tasty and packed with proteins. However, eggs are a major allergy trigger, [...]
September is National Honey Month in the USA. As it marks the end of the honey collection season, it’s a good moment to focus on the natural sweetener – which is not always as natural as one [...]
Doping was again a big topic during the Olympic Games. One of the prohibited substances is Clenbuterol – a drug also used for fattening livestock due to its anabolic effect. Drug residues remain [...]
On 7th March, it’s “healthy eating day” in Germany. This annual event was called into life by the German Food and Dietetics Association (VFED). For this occasion, we take a closer look at some [...]
ELISA is nowadays one the most used methods in food analysis. ELISA’s are used for mycotoxin testing, allergens, antibiotics, vitamins, pathogens – just to name a few. When you use [...]
The first Friday of every August is international beer day. An excellent moment to put the spotlight on 2 quite different quality aspects of beer: gluten content and beer spoilage.
Test kit easy to use and rapid Fish and fish meal can be easily analysed to histamine with the new test system RIDASCREEN® Histamin (enzymatic). Test gives reliable and robust results, [...]
Screening test for bacitracin in milk, meat, eggs, feed and urine RIDASCREEN® Bacitracin is a competitive enzyme immunoassay for the quantitative screening of bacitracin in milk, meat, [...]
β-Agonists such as Clenbuterol, Salbutamol and Ractopamine shift energy intake from fat deposition to muscle formation. Therefore, β-Agonists can be used as growth promoters (‘finishers’) in [...]
Since September 2013, residues of the antibiotic chloramphenicol have been detected in various imported enzyme products by the Rapid Alert System for Food & Feed of the European Union [...]
Time savings due to three paramters in one run and included Internal Amplification Control (IAC) provides an inhibition control for each sample without any additional effort. 4-channel system of [...]
Nitrofurans are synthetic broad-spectrum antibiotics, which are frequently used in animal production due to their excellent antibacterial and pharmacokinetic properties. They have also been used [...]
Finally, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a new regulation for the amount of gluten that may be present in foods marketed as gluten-free. The limit was set to 20 ppm (parts per [...]
We are proud to launch the new sandwich ELISA RIDASCREEN®FAST Soya (R7102) to detect the typical allergenic soya proteins not only in native but also in heated food samples. This Sandwich ELISA [...]
R-Biopharm is proud to announce the RIDASCREEN® Gliadin ELISA, for the detection and quantification of gluten in foods has been accepted by AOAC International as Official First Action method. The [...]
R-Biopharm AG is pleased to extend its range of quantitative ELISA tests for the screening of Nitrofuran metabolites in food and now offers RIDASCREEN® Nitrofuran SEM for the detection of [...]
R-Biopharm has finished the development of the RIDASCREEN®FAST Lysozym ELISA (Art. No. R6452) and since May this kit is available . This kit is suitable for the quantitative detection of lysozyme [...]
A fast and simple screening method for the detection of ß-agonists was developed by R-Biopharm AG: RIDASCREEN® ß-Agonists (Art. No.: R1704). Compared to the available RIDASCREEN® Clenbuterol [...]
