Bio-Check Raw Meat Species FlowThrough™ Surface Swab test - SHEEP (5 Swabs)

Raw Meat FlowThrough™ Swabs are rapid and accurate speciation tests for detecting raw meat on surfaces.

Meat processors now have a new possibility to improve the effectiveness of their cleaning routines.
This test has been developed as a fast and reliable test that can be easily implemented as a routine check.

Prevent food fraud and unintentional contamination with the Raw Meat FlowThrough™ speciation tests. Ideal for any facility handling raw meat, as well as food analysis laboratories, the kits quickly and easily detect the presence of various raw meats on visibly clean environmental surfaces. Tests are available for cow, pig, poultry or sheep. Companion FlowThrough™ speciation kits are available for testing raw meat product itself (TEST0160,TEST0161, TEST0162, TEST0163, TEST0164)

Raw Meat Species FlowThrough™ Key Attributes

• Easy to use, no special training required
• Includes all materials for conducting five tests
• Reliable, sensitive detection
• Results in < 8 minutes for surfaces, <15 minutes for foods
• No ‘overload’ risk if high levels of contamination in foods

General test procedures

The FlowThrough™ tests are rapid, accurate and easy to use. Everything you need to conduct five tests are included in the kit. The procedure for the tests are different for foods and surfaces.

The FlowThrough™ Swab Test for surfaces is equally simple. The test is a validation step in your cleaning process. Swab the selected area with consistent pressure. Snap the bulb on the swab device and firmly squeeze to release the colour reagent through the swab tip into the tube. Squeeze the bulb to empty the liquid onto the test area through the swab tip.

Shipping and Storage of Raw Meat FlowThrough™ kits for foods and surfaces

The Raw Meat FlowThrough™ Swabs for surface tests require special handling and storage. Check the control spot before using to make sure that the kit did not degrade because of a shipping issue

• Kits should be stored at 2°C to 8°C

Troubleshooting

FlowThrough™ Swabs for surfaces

• Swabbing the surface
  The test is designed to verify the cleaning step in your process and should only be used on visibly clean surfaces. Although the tests are highly sensitive the detection capability is dependent upon the quality of the swabbing technique. Amongst other factors, it depends on the surface material and effectiveness of swabbing.

• Cleaning verification
  Working strength levels of detergents or disinfectants do not affect the performance of the tests.
   
• Test and Control spot intensity
  The appearance of a clearly visible Test spot no matter what the intensity should be recorded as Detected. The Control spot should always be clearly visible for the test to be valid. The Test spot (if it appears) is normally of less intensity than the Control spot. Any Test spot is indicative of an unclean surface.

Selectivity of the FlowThrough™ Swab tests for surfaces
The purified antibodies used in this kit are highly specific for the specific species albumin protein; other species (see the meats, animal sera and related foods in the table below), if they react at all, do so at levels well below the lowest detectable response level:

For each test there are also reactions, to a greater or lesser degree, with closely-related species as follows:​