Safe foods for a healthy population
Food safety is key to the world population. Foodborne illnesses caused by harmful pathogens that contaminate food supplies can potentially affect the health of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Carigen provides food and water pathogen detection solutions using assays and instrumentation validated and tested for the food industry. We utilize molecular assays which allow for rapid detection, accuracy and sensitivity so you can produce and have confidence in your product every time.
Faster to market without sacrificing product quality
Our fast testing chemistry and instrumentation saves you time by giving you faster time-to-results versus culture or immunoassay methods. The specificity of our testing results in reduced the false positives and negatives you need confidence in your product. Our testing platforms allow for testing of with a broad range of food sample types with very high throughput.
Our testing
· A simple-DNA based assay
· Flexible-target DNA detected in any food sample
· Incorporates workflows which include industry approved
instrumentation for high quality and process safety.
· Increases accuracy and reduces false negative due to the high
specificity of our systems
· From sample to result in as little as 3 business days
Bacterial agents:
Acute Intestinal Infections (A.I.I) are one of the primary causes of hospitalization in the infectious disease department. The following bacterial and viral agents are the most often detectable and generally spread etiological agents of A.I.I.:
- Shigella species microorganisms and enteroinvasive E coli (EIEC);
- Salmonella species microorganisms;
- Thermophillic group of Campylobacter species microorganisms;
- Enteropathogenic E coli (EPEC) and enteroaggregative E coli (EAEC);
Viral agents:
- Group A rotaviruses;
- Genotype 2 noroviruses;
- Group F adenoviruses (Types 40 and 41);
- Astroviruses.
Our Real Time PCR tests allows for the qualitative detection and differentiation of Shigella Spp. E.coli, Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp., Adenovirus F, Rotavirus A, Norovirus 2 genotypea and Astrovirus
