Gluten test kits are used by businesses and kitchens of all sizes, including:
Food Manufacturer
Commercial Kitchen
Quality Control Lab
Safety Auditor
Manufacturer of Gluten-free Foods, Beverages, etc.
Some manufacturers produce exclusively gluten-free items in a dedicated gluten-free facility. Others work with a co-packer to produce gluten-free items (in a facility that also works with gluten). Still other food and beverage manufacturers produce both gluten-free and gluten-full items. Gluten test kits can benefit all of these busineses.
Gluten test kits help you check incoming ingredients for traces of gluten cross contact, test surfaces of your equipment and facility to validate your allergen cleaning plan during changeover, and also validate that your final product is safely and reliably gluten-free.
Lateral flow devices like GlutenTox Pro and OnSite Gluten are user-friendly, accurate, and robust. They require no equipment and provide general qualitative results in minutes. These rapid gluten test kits are a must-have for any quality assurance or food safety professional whose job is to ensure products are truly gluten-free.
Commercial Kitchen
Does your restaurant, café, or bakery have a gluten-free menu?
Do you operate the cafeteria in an office, hospital, school, or camp that serves meals to some people on a gluten-free diet?
If so, you know how important it is to be ever-vigilant about cross-contact by wheat, barley, rye, and even some oats. Rapid gluten test kits are a quick, easy safety tool. In less than 20 minutes, you can test your cooking surfaces, your ingredients, and your finished products. Testing surfaces can validate your cleaning protocol, or verify that your team did a thorough job cleaning today. Testing products can help ensure nothing slipped through the cracks.
Even if your staff follows careful procedures to avoid cross-contact on site, many staple ingredients like cornmeal or rice flour can arrive with unwanted warning labels. Using gluten tests can help offset the risk of gluten in items featuring PAL (precautionary allergen labeling) or other warnings.
Quality Control Lab
For organizations who run a high volume of tests, test items with especially complex matrices, or require a wider range of detection thresholds, ELISA kits or kits like GlutenTox Sticks PLUS may be a better fit.
With a basic lab set up, GlutenTox Sticks can detect as little as 3ppm gluten in less than an hour. Plus, GlutenTox Sticks can be partially quantified via LFD Reader.
For laboratories with ELISA equipment and skills, ELISA kits offer quantitative results and great flexibility. Emport LLC offers sandwich ELISAs with a variety of antibodies for gluten including R5, G12 and 2D4. We also offer a Competitive G12 ELISA, the current best practice method for checking for gluten in beer and other hydrolyzed matrices.
Testing products high in polyphenols, antioxidants or tannins? Products with high amounts polyphenols, antioxidants and/or tannins may need a special additive in the extraction process. The additive prevents these compounds from masking part of the gluten present in a given sample. Depending on which kit you purchase, an additive may be available.
Food safety auditors and food safety culture trainers
Whether you are auditing to an SQF, BRC or other GFSI scheme — or simply maintaining general governmental compliance regulations — you’ll find test kits helpful. They can give you a quick insight into how well a facility is handling risks of gluten cross-contact. And, rapid gluten tests can even be used to show reluctant employees just how little gluten it takes to sicken someone with celiac disease.
Kits like OnSite Gluten and GlutenTox Pro are portable, shelf-stable, and helpful for any food safety professional’s toolbox.
So what’s next?
Contact us online, give us a call at 866-509-4482, or fill our our handy questionnaire. Our team is here and ready to help match you to the gluten test kits that will best suit your food safety needs.
