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Patent Premi®Test
 28-2-2009The new DSM patent has been granted in the USA on the 9th of December. DSM found that inhibiting compounds such as lysozyme, can be inactivated by treating the samples with a pre-heating step of 10 minutes at 80°C; the antibiotic residues are not inactivated by this treatment.
The picture shows the Premi®Test 2 Step incubator; the customer simply brings the sample onto the agar medium of the test; the test ampoule containing the sample gets a pre-heat treatment after which the normal incubation at 64°C starts so no extra handling for our customers. This method can be used for examining samples such as e.g. egg, urine, kidney, feed and raw milk samples which contain high concentrations of natural inhibiting compounds.
The Premi®Test can now be used for samples, which could not be examined before for the presence of antibiotic residues due to false positive results. This will affect results in self monitoring programs on food safety in the food processing industry.
More information can be found at: www.premitest.com
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