At Lab Innovations 2013 Lab M will discuss extensions to its Captivate range to meet requirements for E.coli testing in food.
The Captivate O45 is due for release in early 2014, enhancing the number of products in the range to eight to cover pending European regulation.
The addition of the latest Captivate product also means that the ’Big Six’ testing requirements for meat products in the US are met.
Immunomagnetic separation is now written into US Department of Agriculture (USDA) methodology for the detection and isolation of non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli (STEC) in meat products and so there is renewed emphasis in the use of this highly effective technique.
Lab M specialists will be available on the company’s exhibition stand to discuss Captivate and its applications and also to demonstrate Lab M’s new µPREP media format.
µPREP is a line of bagged, ready to reconstitute microbiological culture media designed for maximum convenience and cost-efficiency in high-throughput testing laboratories.
Additionally, during the first day of the event, Dr Chris Potter, head of R&D at Lab M, will give a 15-minute presentation discussing ’A magnetic approach to Non-O157 verocytoxin producing E. coli (VTEC)/Shiga toxigenic E. coli (STEC)’.
Lab Innovations 2013 is taking place between 6-7 Novemeber at the NEC Birmingham, UK.
