Bio-Check (UK) Raw Cow FlowThrough™ Surface Swab

Rapid Meat Speciation for surface swabbing

Raw Cow FlowThrough™ Swab offers meat processors a new possibility to improve the effectiveness of their cleaning routines. With this simple test, you can address the current key demands for ease of sampling, high sensitivity with speed and ease of use to verify that meat species controls are working.

• Reliable, sensitive detection
• For use on work and storage surfaces
• Results in under 8 minutes
• No ‘overload’ should high levels of contamination be detected.
• Easy to use, no special training required
• Includes all materials for conducting five tests

Selectivity of the FlowThrough™ Swab tests for surfaces
The purified antibodies used in this kit are highly specific for the specific species albumin protein; other species (see the meats, animal sera and related foods in the table below), if they react at all, do so at levels well below the lowest detectable response level:

Contact us for a full validation report. For each test there are also reactions, to a greater or lesser degree, with closely-related species as follows:​

General test procedures

The FlowThrough™ tests are rapid, accurate and easy to use. Everything you need to conduct five tests are included in the kit. Contact us if you would like additional documentation on how the tests are conducted. The procedure for the tests are different for foods and surfaces.

The FlowThrough™ Swab Test for surfaces is equally simple. The test is a validation step in your cleaning process. Swab the selected area with consistent pressure. Snap the bulb on the sawb device and firmly squeeze to release the color reagent through the swab tip into the tube. Squeeze the bulb to empty the
liquid onto the test area through the swab tip.

Shipping and Storage of Raw Meat FlowThrough™ kits for foods and surfaces
The Raw Meat FlowThrough™ Swabs for surface tests require special handling and storage. Check the control spot before using to make sure that the kit did not degrade because of a shipping issue

• Shipping flat-rate applies only to the continental US. Located in Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico? Contacts us to arrange shipping.
• Raw Meat FlowThrough kits will ship via UPS ?
• Kits will be shipped in cold pack
• Kits should be stored at 2°C/36°F to 8°C/46°F

FlowThrough™ Swabs for surfaces

• Swabbing the surface
  The test is designed to verify the cleaning step in your process and should only be used on visibly clean surfaces.
  
  

  Although the tests are highly sensitive the detection capability is dependent upon the quality of the swabbing technique. Amongst other factors, it depends on the surface material and effectiveness of swabbing.

• Cleaning verification
  Working strength levels of detergents or disinfectants do not affect the performance of the tests.
  
  
• Test and Control spot intensity
  The appearance of a clearly visible Test spot no matter what the intensity should be recorded as Detected. The Control spot should always be clearly visible for the test to be valid. The Test spot (if it appears) is normally of less intensity than the Control spot. Any Test spot is indicative of an unclean surface.