Food Testing Services

Food contamination and adulteration is a major problem for both food industries and consumers. We at iLife discoveries offer a wide range of highly sensitive assays for microbial contamination in food and for identification of meat species adulteration from raw as well as cooked meat samples.

Food Pathogen Detection

Food borne illness is a serious public health concern throughout the world and is a major concern for business for food growers, manufacturers, packers, shippers, wholesalers and retailers. Preventing or reducing the incidence of food borne disease is dependent on the ability to rapidly identify contributing pathogens. The present microbiological based method for food pathogen detection is time consuming and less sensitive. iLife Discoveries has developed Nucleic Acid based tests to detect pathogen from food samples using fluorescent based real time QPCR assay, which is highly sensitive, specific and delivers the results  in hours.

 

S. No.	Food Pathogen Detection	Cat #
1	PCR based Shigella spp. Detection	FTS001
2	PCR based Salmonella spp. Detection	FTS002

 

Meat Adulteration Detection

Meat species adulteration is another serious concern in meat industries. Meat species identification is necessary both because of health concern and religious apprehensions. Most of the currently used methods have been reported to have limitations in use due to lack in specificity, complexity, high cost and some requirements for baseline data about the differences in protein compositions.

iLife Discoveries offers Nucleic Acid based highly sensitive assays to identify the meat species in the food sample using Polymerase Chain Reaction and Lab-on-Chip technology from Agilent, USA.

 

S. No.	Meat adulteration detection*	Cat #
1	Halal meat (Pork) identification	FTS003
2	Identification of beef meat adulteration	FTS004
3	Identification of Goat meat adulteration	FTS005
4	Identification of sheep meat adulteration	FTS006
5	Identification of poultry meat	FTS007
	* All tests are nucleic acid based assays

 

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