Author: Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team

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,…