PEANUT DETECTION TEST KITS

Peanut Test Kits

Peanuts (often called groundnuts) are legumes that produce nut-like fruits within protective shells. They are widely used in food and feed and appear in various forms on our table, such as in Asian dishes, bakery goods, peanut butter or roasted as a snack.

Peanuts are a highly nutritious source of food as they contain high amounts of oil and proteins. Many such proteins in peanuts are known to be allergenic. For people suffering from a peanut allergy, even minor exposure in the nano-gram range can cause immune reactions from mild skin rashes to fatal anaphylactic shock.

As cross-contaminations may occur during food processing, the food industry is required to use sensitive test kits to ensure their products meet the highest levels of food safety.

Fast and highly sensitive peanut analysis

The Romer Labs peanut test kit portfolio covers ELISAs and LFDs for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of peanut in environmental samples, rinse waters and finished food products.

AgraStrip^® Lateral Flow Devices

The AgraStrip^® Peanut test kit is a ready-to-use lateral flow device (LFD) for on-site testing. This immunological test allows a rapid analysis of a wide range of food samples within only 11 minutes (including extraction).

AgraStrip^® LFDs represent a fast and simple qualitative strip test method in which specific antibodies labeled with colloidal gold are used for visual color development at a test and control zone.

The test kit comes complete with strips, antibody coated incubation vials, extraction tubes, an extraction buffer, surface swabs and additional accessories.

Models:

AgraStrip^® Peanut (10001988)

AgraQuant^® ELISA Tests

The AgraQuant^® Peanut test kit is an accurate and reliable enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in a quantitative format. Results are measured with a specific ELISA reader, such as the StatFax^® or the BioTek^® reader.

The AgraQuant^® Plus Peanut test kit is specifically designed for a more efficient workflow. This test format uses unique extraction capsules that speed up the extraction of allergenic proteins, especially from processed matrices, to barely 1 minute.

Incubation times of the assay are reduced to 3 x 10 minutes, leading to a total assay time of 30 minutes for up to 38 samples.

Both AgraQuant^® Peanut test kits are sandwich ELISAs in a ready-to-use format to reduce handling errors and come with a set of 5 standards, extraction solution /capsules, an antibody coated plate, a wash buffer, a conjugate, a substrate and a stop solution.

Models:

AgraQuant^® Plus Peanut (10001992)

AgraQuant^® Peanut (10001990)

AgraStrip^® Peanut (10001988)

The AgraStrip^® Peanut test kit is a lateral flow device (LFD) designed for the on-site detection of peanut residues in raw materials, finished food products and beverages, rinse waters and environmental samples. They allow for the simple, fast and reliable qualitative detection of peanut traces.

Properties

Materials supplied

• 1 tube with 10 AgraStrip^® Peanut LFDs
• 1 foil pouch with 10 incubation vials containing antibodies
• 1 bottle of 35 mL ready-to-use extraction buffer with dropper cap
• 10 extraction tubes and caps
• 10 filtered dropper tips for the extraction tubes
• 10 sterile swabs with pre-scored tips
• 1 vial rack

Materials required but not supplied

• blender for solid samples

AgraQuant^® Plus Peanut (10001992)

The AgraQuant^® Plus Peanut is a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) designed for the quantitative analysis of peanut residues in food samples. It features a fast extraction procedure with a unique capsule technology. The total assay time is reduced to 30 minutes, with only 1 minute needed for the extraction procedure. Samples can vary from raw to processed foods, from environmental swabs to rinse water. This product is intended for laboratory use.

Properties

Materials supplied

• 48 transfer wells sealed in a foil pouch
• 48 antibody-coated microwells sealed in a foil pouch
• 1 microwell strips frame
• 5 ready-to-use standards (0; 1; 5; 10 and 25 ppm)
• 1 bottle of 50 mL (20X) wash buffer
• 1 green-capped bottle of conjugate solution
• 1 blue-capped bottle of substrate solution
• 1 red-capped bottle of stop solution
• 1 bag of capsule extraction additive 1
• 1 bag of capsule extraction additive 2

Materials required but not supplied

• Blender
• water boiler or water bath (80-100 °C)
• analytical balance
• 8-channel pipette
• wash bottle
• microwells/plate reader

AgraQuant^® Peanut (10001990)

The AgraQuant^® Peanut is a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) designed for the quantitative analysis of peanut residues in food samples. Samples can vary from raw to processed foods, from environmental swabs to rinse water. This product is intended for laboratory use.

Properties

Materials supplied

• 48 antibody-coated microwells in a microwell holder sealed in a foil pouch
• 5 ready-to-use standards (0; 1; 4; 10 and 40 ppm)
• 1 bottle of concentrated (10X) extraction buffer
• 1 bottle of concentrated (10X) wash buffer
• 1 green-capped bottle of conjugate solution
• 1 blue-capped bottle of substrate solution
• 1 red-capped bottle of stop solution

Materials required but not supplied

• Blender
• analytical balance
• 8-channel pipette
• wash bottle
• microwells/plate reader