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Food Allergen Testing Laboratory
Since late November 2005, food labelling regulations in the UK and Europe have insisted that allergens deliberately added to pre-packed food and food products must be labelled with allergen information.
ILS can provide a wide range of food allergen testing, whether it is in finished products, raw materials, rinse waters or environmental swabs.
Food Allergen testing is carried out on the following list of allergenic foods:
- Cereals with Gluten
- Crustaceans
- Eggs
- Fish
- Peanuts
- Soyabeans
- Milk
- Celery
- Lupin
- Molluscs
- Mustard
- Sesame
- Sulphur dioxide / sulphites
- Nuts (see list of nuts tested below)
Nut Allergen Testing includes.
- Almond
- Hazelnut
- Walnut
- Cashew
- Pecan
- Brazil
- Pistachio
- Macadamia
- Queensland
Contact ILS - for more information and prices on allergen testing and analysis
ILS can also conduct the following Food Allergen Testing:
- Histamine
- Mycotoxin Testing - Aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2 - Ochratoxin
Toxic response to Mycotoxins has been around for thousand's of years and now hundreds of varieties of toxins and toxin mixes are known. The toxins are often stable through cooking and freezing and therefore are a very real hazard to certain types of food production.
There are hundreds of cases in the EU alone let alone worldwide and staple products rice, grains, maize, fruit and wine are affected.
ILS can test for Aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2 and Ochratoxin.
Useful Links
http://foodallergens.ifr.ac.uk/
clientfiles/File/buyingfoodallergy1109.pdf