ELISA Kits for Drug Residues Detection

Creative Diagnostics offers several new ELISA Kits for quantitative and qualitative analysis of drugs residues in different kinds of samples. Our ELISA product line covers various drug residues. In addition, the test sensitivity of our kits is far below the maximum residue limit (MRL), which is a secure choice for multiple purposes.

Why are Drug Residues Detection So Important in Food?

There are two main concerns about drug residues in food. one is residues produces potential threat to directly toxicity in human such as general oral toxicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, developmental toxicity, genotoxicity etc; the other is whether the low levels of antibiotic exposure would result in alteration of microflora, cause the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

One of the most important directly effects of antibiotics in food is allergic reactions. Abundant information is related to hypersensitivity of Penicillin, aminoglycosides and tetracycline. Furthermore, β-lactam antibiotics can cause cutaneous eruptions, dermatitis, gastro-intestinal symptoms and anaphylaxis at very low doses. Such drugs include the Penicillin and cephalosporin groups of antibiotics. These direct effects may include the induction of resistance in normal flora of the human gastrointestinal tract due to the consumption of antibiotic-containing meat products causing an outbreak of resistant diarrheal disease.

Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic, which is a public concern recently. Its primary cause is long-term overexposure to antibiotics through their use as medicines in humans, as well as in animals, horticulture and for food preservation. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described antibiotic resistance as "one of the world's most pressing health problems", because "the number of bacteria resistant to antibiotics has increased in the last decade.