Food safety matters to everyone. Food-borne illness caused by harmful pathogens that contaminate food supplies can potentially affect the health of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is also a major concern for food growers, manufacturers, packers,shippers, wholesalers, and retailers. Release of contaminated foods can result in processing delays, product recalls, plant shutdowns, and legal action. It can cost food companies millions in revenue as well as their reputation, stock value, and future profitability.

To help ensure food safety, Mylab Lifesolutions provides a powerful pathogen detection solution that features streamlined sample preparation, sensitive and specific assays, and robust instrumentation, all designed to work together.

These molecular tools for food safety testing aid in the rapid detection of harmful food pathogens, offering speed, accuracy,sensitivity, and global support to give you the highest confidence in your food testing results, every time.

Our Pathogen Detection Kits are based on universal assay conditions. You can run any combination of these assays together in the same sample run to test for multiple pathogens.

The growing portfolio of kits includes:

• Salmonella enterica
• Campylobacter jejuni
• E. coil 0157:H7
• Listeria monocytogenes
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Staphylococcus aureus
• Salmonella Enteritidis

Our Pathogen Detection Kits are is based on real-time PCR. Realtime PCR is a proven method for pathogen detection and has been applied successfully to a wide range of food-borne pathogens, including Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, and E. coli O157:H7. The method tests for food pathogens by amplifying and detecting a DNA target sequence that is specific to the organism under investigation. In this way, real-time PCR can detect pathogens quickly, simply, and with outstanding sensitivity and specificity, and since the kit uses fast PCR chemistry, the PCR step takes only 40 minutes, compared with up to 2.5 hours using standard PCR.