Food Security Services
Apollon Bioteck is a biotechnology company specialized in the production and marketing of molecular biology assays for Animal Health diagnosis and molecular food security. We offer a range of easy to use and efficient assays to help laboratory professionals in these fields to analyze with reliability and safety any products and meet the demands of the customers in terms of turnaround time.
The scandal of horse meat had exposed to the public the traceability defects of the meat origin in foodstuffs that was not without consequences in the sector of food industry. Since then, the adulteration of meat products by horse meat, pork or other animal species (not shown for example in the product labelling) became a major concern of consumers. Appolon Bioteck offers through an innovative technology, the detection and identification of DNA from 24 animal different species.
Appolon Bioteck is promoting new assays based on Chip technology for meat detection from of 24 different animals in fresh or processed food like burgers, pizza or lasagna products… Our assays help experts to check detect smaller traces of horsemeat or pork in any processed food product. This is also very important for Halal meat issues for pork detection and others non-authorized food for Muslims people.
LCD-array technology is simple, robust, fast, cost efficient and reliable. You can find the key benefits/supporting Informations:
Simultaneously detection of 17 meat and 7 poultry species across fresh cooked food. Due to the small amplicons sizes (120-130 base pairs); the assay is well suited for the analysis of sample material, which underwent intensive processing. [Results generated from extracted DNA in 2.5 hours (only 50 minutes after the PCR).
Analytical sensitivity of 0.5% i.e. depending on the starting material, addition of less than 0.5% materiel from any species can be detected within a background of 99.5% materiel from other species.