Picking the Right Allergen Kit for Your Application

Crystal Chem offers innovative testing kits for the detection of allergens in food, rinse water, and on surfaces. The kits are manufactured by Morinaga Institute and utilize proprietary extraction solutions, and highly sensitive antibodies to effectively measure a range of wheat (buckwheat, gluten, gliadin), egg (ovalbumin), milk (casein, beta-lactoglobulin), soy, and peanut proteins from raw or processed foods.

Unlike competitors' kits, Morinaga's kits can detect both native and denatured proteins found in both raw and processed foods. Using a unique approach, the native proteins in your sample are first denatured, and then antibodies are used that bind specifically to the denatured proteins making the kits an ideal way to detect all the protein (allergen) in raw and processed foods. 

We offer several options to detect allergens in your specific application:

Quantitative Testing: For raw and processed foods.

• ELISA kits

Qualitative or Semi-Quantitative Testing:The Rapid Test Easy and Rapid Test Pro II Kits use lateral flow methods to offer quick, and easy, ways to verify the absence or presence of allergens or allergen residues.

• Rapid Test Easy Kits: For soluble proteins from rinse water or on surfaces.

• Rapid Test Pro II Kits: For less soluble proteins including those in raw and processed food.

Review the individual product pages for more information or review some recent publications.

ELISA Kits

For accurate quantification of allergens, we offer ELISA kits.

The kits each are capable of running 96 tests and incorporate Morinaga's innovative extraction method to achieve high recovery of allergen proteins in both raw and processed foods.

We offer both the original versions of the kits, as well as, the new and updated version of the kits. The newly updated kits offer the same great quality of the original kits without the need for added β-mercaptoethanol.

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Rapid Test Easy Kits

For qualitative or semi-quantitative measurement of soluble allergens or for rinse water analysis, we offer the Rapid Test Easy Kit product line for Casein, Egg, Soy, and Gluten.

1. First rinse water is collected or the surface is swabbed. For swab tests, material is extracted from the swab by mixing in a solution of buffer.
2. Samples from the rinse water or buffer solution are added to the test stick.
3. The results are read in 10 minutes. A red line in the test window indicates a positive test for the target allergen.

Product Offerings 

• Buckwheat Rapid Test Easy Kit

• Casein Rapid Test Easy Kit

• Crustacean Rapid Test Easy Kit

• Egg (Ovomucoid) Rapid Test Easy Kit

• Peanut Rapid Test Easy Kit

• Soy Rapid Test Easy Kit

• Wheat/Gluten (Gliadin) Rapid Test Easy Kit

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Rapid Test Pro II Kits

For qualitative or semi-quantitative measurement of less soluble proteins, typically found in raw or processed food, we offer the Rapid Test Pro II Kit product line for Buckwheat, Casein, Egg, Gluten, and Peanut.

1. For surface testing, a moist swab is used to collect a sample from the test area. For food samples, 1 g of ground food is added to the supplied 50 mL tube. 2. Allergens are extracted from the swab or food by adding 1 pack of the innovative extraction solution. 3-4. The proteins are extracted by heating the mixture in a water bath for 10 minutes at 100 °C. The mixture is then cooled and vortexed. (Depending on your sample, it may be possible to omit these steps.) 5-6. A sample of the extracted solution is added to a diluent mixture. Next 200 µL of the solution is added to the test stick. 7. The results are read in 15 minutes. A red line in the test window indicates a positive test for the target allergen.

Product Offerings 

• Buckwheat Rapid Test Pro II Kit

• Casein Rapid Test Pro II Kit

• Crustacean Rapid Test Pro II Kit

• Egg (Ovalbumin) Rapid Test Pro II Kit

• Peanut Rapid Test Pro II Kit

• Shellfish Rapid Test Pro II Kit

• Total Milk Rapid Test Pro II Kit

• Walnut Rapid Test Pro II Kit

• Wheat/Gluten (Gliadin) Rapid Test Pro II Kit

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