RIDASCREEN® FAST PEANUT, a rapid and safe tool to determine peanut contamination in food

During the last years allergenic substances in food have gained more and more attention. Stricter rules for a peanut free food labelling demand a peanut contamination less than 5 ppm. The maintenance of a high quality of food products with regards to allergenic exposure is preferable warranted with rapid tests that can be utilized as an aid for suppliers to control raw materials, to avoid cross contamination during production and to check the final products. A rapid sandwich peanut ELISA was developed, which covers a measuring range of 2.5–20 ppm peanut (detection limit of 1.5 ppm). This test was successfully evaluated in an independent study under the supervision of the AOAC Research Institute, getting the AOAC certificate No. 030404. In-house validation and independent validation data demonstrate the reliability, accuracy and precision of the test.