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
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.