Histamine Testing in Food

Histamine in Food

Histamine is the endogenous ligand that binds and activates histamine receptors. It can be naturally found in a great number of plants, animals and bacteria. Some foods are particularly high in histamine and may cause, in people sensitive to that, “Histamine poisoning” also called “scombrotoxin fish poisoning” when eating spoiled fish. Our HistaStrip^™ Test Kit is a convenient dipstick technology for the rapid visual detection of histamine in a variety of sample types. The test strips can detect unsafe levels of histamine in only 4 minutes without the use of organic solvents or heating steps. We also offer the MaxSignal^® Histamine Enzymatic Assay with a user-friendly protocol, no washing steps necessary; sensitive histamine detection; fast results; and less than 5% cross-reactivity with 14 other biogenic amines.

Histamine in Food Related Content

Histamine in Food Related Content

Seafood Testing

As a leader in the food and feed safety testing industry, PerkinElmer develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of seafood testing kits for the detection of antibiotic, histamine, and phycotoxin residues. Consider PerkinElmer your one-stop-shop for seafood safety test kits! Testing for histamine and drug residues is now simpler than ever with the MaxSignal® and HistaStrip™ products. With our MaxSignal ELISA product line, as well as our AOAC-approved enzymatic kit and field-based strip test for histamine, customers can detect histamine at any point in their supply chain.

Superior Seafood Testing all in One Place

As a leader in the food and feed safety testing industry, PerkinElmer develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of seafood diagnostic kits for the detection of antibiotic, histamine, and phycotoxin residues. Consider PerkinElmer your one-stop-shop for seafood safety test kits!

HistaStrip^™ Test Kits

The HistaStrip™ Test Kit is a convenient dipstick technology used for the rapid visual detection of histamine in seafood, fish meal, milk, and fish sauce. The test strips can detect unsafe levels of histamine in only 4 minutes without the use of organic solvents or heating steps.

MaxSignal^® Histamine Enzymatic Assay

Histamine is a contaminant sometimes found in seafood when improperly handled. High levels of histamine in seafood are often associated with scombroid poisoning, a bacterially induced illness from spoiled fish. Scombroid poisoning triggers acute allergic response, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension, rashes and hives. The international codex standard for fish includes histamine levels as indicators of decomposition, hygiene and handling. The MaxSignal® Histamine Enzymatic Assay provides a user-friendly protocol, no washing steps necessary; sensitive histamine detection; fast results; and less than 5% cross-reactivity with 14 other biogenic amines.

Validation of the HistaStrip Test Kit for the detection of histamine in seafood

Histamine poisoning is the second leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States, accounting for nearly one in fifty of the total cases of food-borne illness in the US. The expensive, time-consuming, and labor-intensive nature of the available detection methods for histamine dramatically limit the capacity to test large numbers of samples. The HistaStrip™ Test Kit offers a convenient solution for quick, quantitative, field-based screening of seafood samples.

Meat and Seafood Testing Solutions

Food testing labs like yours are constantly challenged with accurately analyzing samples quickly and efficiently - all while striving to reduce costs due to market forces. Your commitment to ensuring meat and seafood are safe for consumption, as demand increases, is an uphill battle. Our commitment to you: to provide a range of solutions across multiple technologies, products, and services that meets or exceeds the testing needs of food processors. Our solutions offer more efficiency and increased accuracy and sensitivity for better yields in real time with minimal training. From instrumentation and software to consumables and reagents to service and support, we are dedicated to providing you with end-to-end solutions that ease your everyday challenges of automation, throughput, service, and time to results.

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