Food Safty Testing Based on SPR Technology

The importance of food safty testing

Food quality and safety refers to the degree of assurance of food quality to the health and safety of consumers, including the following three aspects. At the first place, there are some food quality and safety problems caused by food pollution, such as biological, chemical, and physical pollution; Secondly, the quality and safety problems brought about by the development of food industry technology, such as food additives. Last but not least, there are abuses of food labels among food manufacturers, such as forged food labels, lack of warning instructions, false labeling of food functions or ingredients. Food safety issues are closely related to human life and health which are the basis for people's survival and an issue that cannot be ignored in daily life.

The main inspection content involved in food safety

As shown in the figure below, food safety testing involves the following aspects.

• Non-edible substances refer to illegal additives added to food that are inedible and cause harm to the human body, such as melamine added to milk powder.
• The nutrient composition test results can explain the nutrient distribution of the food, and can provide effective reference data for people with special diets to avoid eating fasted ingredients.
• Improper addition of food additives often happens, and even non-edible substances are added, which seriously affects food safety.
• Trace element detection can provide a basis for people to choose food, and help people eat rationally.
• Heavy metal detection is very important. When food products are contaminated with heavy metals, it will seriously endanger human health, causing acute symptoms such as vomiting and abdominal pain, and even more serious cancers.
• Unreasonable use of pesticides will lead to excessive pesticide residues in agricultural products and affect consumer safety.
• The detection of mycotoxins and some pathogenic microorganisms is closely related to human health. In severe cases, it can lead to the spread of infectious diseases.

Fig.1 The main content of food safety testing

surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in food safty testing

Based on the current situation of the global pandemic of the new coronavirus, an emerging hot spot in the field of food safety testing is the detection of pathogens on the surface of cold-chain food packaging. Food safety has always played the most important role in people's lives, and it has seriously affected people's physical and mental health. Therefore, food safety testing is an important check and guarantee for food before it is eaten by people. Our SPR technology platform can provide assistance for your food safety testing.

Fig.2 BIAchip™ in the process of food safty testing 

SPR technology can provide you with high-throughput and high-accuracy concentration analysis in your food safety testing process. As we can see in the figure above, the detection range of SPR technology is very wide, including grain and oil products, dairy products, livestock and aquatic products, condiments, pet food, food contact and packaging materials, drinking water and other fields. At the same time, we provide various types of detection chips corresponding to the detection range, including standard models and customized models, for your choice. Our SPR technology platform can completely ensure the sensitivity of the detection process and the accuracy of the detection results, and provide you with help in the high-throughput rapid detection of food safety in various fields.

Choosing SPR technology platform of Creative Proteomics, you will greatly save time and money costs owing to high-throughput intermolecular interaction detection. All services are available on a 24/7/365 basis. If you have any questions or suggestions about our SPR platform, please feel free to contact us right now.

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