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| Product Code | Proficiency Test | Matrix | Approx. Size |
|---|---|---|---|
|
BLVD12-SEA2
|
02562b |
Blank Fish Muscle |
20 g |
Blank Material (nitrofuran metabolites)
This round cannot be purchased on its own, it is only available in conjunction with the similarly numbered vet. drug residue round.
Veterinary medicine residues must be controlled to mitigate any detrimental effects for those consumed in large quantities. Through poor farming practices high levels of veterinary medicines residues can be passed to consumers, resulting in a high risk to consumers.
Through effective testing techniques these risks can be mitigated, due to the management activities which can be undertaken as a result of the identification of veterinary medicines in foodstuffs.
To maintain the highly accurate testing ability required it is important to undertake a well-designed quality assurance programme.
This blank material is ideal to ensure effective calibration curves are created. This can ensure only high quality test results are found. Blank materials from Fapas are ideal for ensuring matrix matching takes place. By using blank materials as close to positive test samples as possible the matrix effect is dramatically reduced.
Blank materials from Fapas make use of real food matrices to provide the key insights into your routine testing abilities you require. These can be used to maintain the level of accuracy required to satisfy both your customers and regulators of your testing capabilities.
Fish muscle is the most highly consumed form of fish globally. As such it is the subject of lower residue levels compared to other parts fish. This high consumption can leave the supply chain at risk from poor farming practices, which can affect large amounts of consumers globally, owing to the global fish supply chain.
Animal products for human consumption are tightly legislated and closely monitored for compliance. Veterinary medicines used in animals are likely to have a pharmacological effect in humans. Hence, for many veterinary medicines, there are extremely low maximum residue limits or even no MRL (i.e. any detection is non-compliant). Fapas proficiency test materials are produced inkeeping with EU MRLs or minimum required performance limit (MRPL) where MRLs are not set. The result reporting requirements are also in keeping with quality control guidelines laid out in EC/657/2002. Fapas veterinary medicine proficiency test materials include incurred residues as well as fortified animal products. The proficiency tests are grouped in analytical chemical class/matrix combinations and combine identification and quantification. The proficiency tests are suitable for all methods, including screening methods (for the detection of total amount of that chemical class).
The adjoining proficiency test evaluates your testing ability for individual nitrofuran metabolites plus 'total nitrofuran metabolites' for the benefit of participants using ELISA test kits. Fish muscle is a new matrix for 2017.
