RIDASCREEN®FAST Crustacean
Art. No. R7312
Product info
Intended use
RIDASCREEN®FAST Crustacean is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for the quantitative analysis of crustaceans which can be present as ingredient or contamination in raw or cooked food.
General Information
Shrimp, crab, prawns, krill, lobster, langouste and crayfish are described as crustaceans. Especially, the muscle protein tropomyosin can cause allergic reactions. Severe sensitizations are not rare. Allergies to crustaceans occur more frequently in adult people and remain there for life. For crustaceans, a reference dose of 10 mg crustacean-protein was determined (Vital concept). Assuming an average protein content of crustaceans of 20 %, this corresponds to 50 mg crustacean. The RIDASCREEN®FAST Crustacean 2nd generation (R7312) is thus sensitive enough to enable food allergen labeling according to the VITAL concept.
Crustaceans can be present as an ingredient or as a contamination in raw and processed products. According to the regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011, crustaceans must be declared on food labels as they can induce allergic reactions. Similar regulations exist e.g. in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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 | R7312 |
| 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) | 2.0 mg / kg (ppm) crustacean (mean) 0.9 - 2.6 mg / kg (ppm) crustacean* *depending on matrix |
| LOQ (Limit of quantification | 20 – 160 mg / kg (ppm) crustacean |
| Cross Reactivity. | Minor cross-reaction was detected with mustard, curcuma, beans, mussels and arthropods. |
| Detected analyte | Crustacean-proteins (mainly tropomyosin) |
| Available application notes |
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| Evaluation | Microtiter plate spectrophotometer (450 nm) |