A new reagent test kit is about to hit the market in Japan that should help manufacturers comply with allergen labelling legislation.
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Nippon Becton Dickinson Co. (the Japanese unit of US medical equipment maker Becton, Dickinson and Co.) has been working together with Japanese meat producer Nippon Meat Packers to develop the kit.
The kit can test for the trace presence of the five designated food allergens in Japan – egg, milk, wheat, buckwheat and peanut. The selling point of the kit is that the test takes just 15 minutes, considerably shorter than the three hours it typically takes at the moment, reports Asia Pulse. Highly sensitive, it can identify allergens in food at levels as low as five parts per million.
The kits will be available as of early October. A kit with enough reagents for 20 individual tests will set the buyer back ¥36,000 (US$321.9m).
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