A NEW product from Amsbio, CloneCatcher Gold DH5G electrocompent E coli cells, exhibit extremely high electroporation efficiencies that approach the theoretical maximum of 3.4×10^11cfu/ug pUC19 DNA. Transferring exogenous DNA into E coli is a standard laboratory method for cloning genes…
Category: food safety
Pirbright Institute is new name for IAH
THE UK’s Institute for Animal Health, which has a 100-year track record as a leading centre for surveillance and research into livestock diseases and the spread of viruses from animals to humans, has today (04 October 2012) been renamed the…
Assay screens juice and honey for carbendazim
THE QUANTITATIVE analysis of carbendazim in juice and honey samples is made easier through the use of Bioo Scientific’s latest Elisa (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), the MaxSignal Carbendazim kit. The kit was developed in response to the US Food and Drug…
Big six banned E coli pathogens now available
FOLLOWING the announcement by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of mandatory testing for six serogroups of E Coli in the food chain, ATCC has made available all six of the newly-banned pathogens. Each of these non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing…
Methods for detection of dioxins in eggs
RESPONDING to the latest food scare in Europe, in which chicken eggs have been found to contain up to four times the permitted level of dioxins, Thermo Fisher has drawn attention to the test methods it has developed to detect…
Kit detects histamine in seafood, wine, and milk
A NEW laboratory-free test can detect dangerous levels of histamine in foodstuffs including seafood, fish meal, wine, and milk in just four minutes. The HistaStrip test kit from Bioo Scientific uses a dipstick approach, providing a visual indication of histamine…
Faster tools for food safety and fish identification
A NEW project to verify the accuracy of food labelling, and to quickly identify strains of salmonella, will see Agilent Technologies develop new tests based on mass spectrometry and lab-on-chip techniques, under an agreement with the US Food and Drug…
Elisa screens meat samples for colistin
COLISTIN, or polymyxin E, is a cationic lipopeptide antibiotic which is effective against most Gram-negative bacilli, but its use is restricted in the EU and Japan and therefore food of animal origin should normally be tested for colistin residues. The…
Faster aflatoxin analysis in milk
THE LATEST kits in Bioo Scientific’s range of MaxSignal elisas (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) are used for the detection of aflatoxin M1 in milk and dairy products, and offer a choice of greater analysis speed or greater sensitivity depending on the…
Lab-on-a-truck makes US tour
YOU’VE heard of lab-on-a-chip, the incorporation of microfluidic circuitry into a sliver of silicon or plastic that promises to do to chemistry what transistors and integrated circuits did for electronics. At the other end of the scale we now have…