Waters Corporation has released its new Fumo-V™ ONE Strip Test from its VICAM™ portfolio, a quantitative lateral flow strip test to detect fumonisin and other harmful mycotoxins in finished animal feed and pet foods. Using water extraction, the Fumo-V ONE can detect fumonisin in the range of 0.5–30 parts per million (ppm) in less than ten minutes.
Fumonisin is one of the most widespread mycotoxins worldwide, linked to life-threatening diseases in horses and pigs, as well as esophageal cancer and liver and kidney diseases in humans.
The new strip tests offer three major improvements over traditional methods:
- Enable the “Big Three” mycotoxins—aflatoxin, fumonisin, and deoxynivalenol (DON)—to be monitored on-the-spot during feed production, moving upstream quality management and ensuring that products is safe to send and consume.
- Provide customers with actionable results on site in less than ten minutes for complex finished feeds, eliminating the need to wait for lab results and speeding up decision making on finished product release using precise and accurate data
- Produce results quickly—in minutes instead of hours, days, or weeks—to drive better decision-making, lower risk, and avoid financial losses caused by recalls or legal effects due to contaminated feed.
Fumo-V ONE Strip Tests eliminate the complex and technique-dependent procedures common to traditional methods, and overcome the previous limitations of lateral flow strip tests for testing complex finished products . Fumo-V ONE Strip Tests use water for extraction, which helps improve safety and retention for onsite testing.
Waters Corporation: www.waters.com
