White Paper on Mycotoxins in Petfood
The global pet food market is projected to expand at 4.20% CAGR until 2017 (Transparency Market Rsearch, 2015), this driven by consumers wanting... Read More
Vicam receives Market Leadership award
VICAM (a Waters Business) receives the 2016 North American Food Safety Diagnostics Market Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan. The announcement on the... Read More
Ensuring reliable tests for aflatoxins in corn
Since the early 1990’s the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) has provided a rapid test kits evaluation programme for detection of mycotoxins... Read More
New focus on food fraud in BRC Issue 7
The 7th issue of BRC’s Global Standard for Food Safety has been published and becomes effective on 1st July 2015. There are many... Read More
Mycotoxin warnings
The challenge from mycotoxins is forever changing due for example to seasonal growing conditions, climate change, crop practices and land use. There is... Read More
Mycotoxin risk this summer
In the UK, the more unsettled weather in August made farmers reconsider the potential mycotoxin risk for harvest time. The weather was often... Read More
New product: Afla M1-V test strips
The capabilities for rapid onsite detection of mycotoxins have just got even better. Bio-Check is launching Vicam’s new quantitative lateral flow test for... Read More
Trends in Multitoxin Analysis
Risk assessments of common food products for the presence of mycotoxins must be regularly performed to identify which classes are currently of interest... Read More
Product Updates
Contamination Thresholds: This month discussion has continued on proposed contamination thresholds of 0.1% and 1% (w/w) for undeclared meats. At the recent FSA... Read More
Product Updates
Raw Meat FlowThrough™ Poultry is now available adding to the range of onsite tests for detecting adulteration in raw meat products e.g. burgers.... Read More