Mycotoxin ELISA Kits

To ensure quality and safety, food and beverage manufacturers need to perform a wide range of tests on their products.  Many of these tests are based around enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) due to speed, ease of use, low cost and quality of result. 

Gold Standard Diagnostics offers ELISA tests for the rapid detection of mycotoxins in food and beverages. Mycotoxins are a family of toxic secondary metabolites produced by molds in grains, fruits and other and are the cause for a range of health risks in both humans and animals.  Due to these health risks, national and international health authorities have adopted strict regulatory guidelines aimed at controlling the presence of mycotoxins in food and feed.

Mycotoxins are found in various food and beverage industries including dairy (Aflatoxin M1), grain, feed and pet food (Aflatoxin, Ochratoxin, Vomitoxin), fruit juices (Patulin) and more.  Gold Standard Diagnostics' test kits are available for the rapid detection of these key mycotoxins.

Hundreds of mycotoxins exist in nature, however only a select few are relevant to the agro-food industry including Aflatoxins, Deoxynivalenol (DON), Ochratoxin and Patulin.

The term “mycotoxin” identifies a family of toxic secondary metabolites produced by molds. Hundreds of mycotoxins exist in nature, however only a select few are relevant to the agro-food industry including Aflatoxins, Deoxynivalenol (DON), Ochratoxin and Patulin.

Consuming food contaminated with mycotoxins can trigger a domino effect resulting in great economic losses across many industries and increased health risks to humans and animals.  Studies estimate that mycotoxins affect more than 25% of the world’s food, and the issues caused by these contaminants are extremely important. Mycotoxins contamination occurs not only in grains, coffee, beer/wine, fruits/vegetables and pet food, but also in the dairy industry, in the presence of aflatoxin M1 and Patulin in fruit foodstuff and juices.

National and international health authorities have adopted strict regulatory guidelines aimed at controlling the presence of mycotoxins in food and feed.

Key Benefits of Gold Standard Diagnostics' Mycotoxin Test Kits:

• Rapid, on-site or laboratory-based analysis
• Quantitative results
• Answers in 3-4 hours, not days
• Simple methodology requires basic lab skills
• Improves turnaround by eliminating delays associated with sample shipment for offsite analysis
• Ability to run high volume of samples (41 per test kit)
• Low per sample cost