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Rapid food testing devices and kits to redefine food safety in 2020
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Thursday, 02 January, 2020, 15 : 00 PM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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FSSAI has made a quick progress towards the use of advanced technologies for food testing in the year 2019. Several new rapid food testing devices/kits for detection of food-borne pathogens and toxins were introduced in 2019. These devices ensure faster, better and cheaper real-time testing of food. These are expected to become an integral part of quality assurance/quality control programmes in the food industry, and also for regulatory and surveillance purposes in 2020.
In 2019, the country’s apex regulator had finalised the regulations for approval of rapid testing devices, kits and methods to strengthen the food testing ecosystem in the country. It has so far approved 30 rapid food testing kits/devices under these regulations, given as per List 1 attached below.
FSSAI is also providing these kits/devices to the state governments for use by field officers and get quicker and validated results for tests conducted on different food products, such as milk and edible oils, amongst others. Steps have been initiated to make these available on the government eProcurement marketplace (GeM) portal so that further procurements can be made by governments and local bodies on their own. FSSAI has invested over Rs 5 crore on this so far.
Only two out of 30 rapid kits/devices are indigenously manufactured, the rest are imported despite the fact that many research and scientific institutions are engaged in the development of such kits and devices.
FSSAI has initiated steps so that indigenously developed kits/devices are validated and approved under its regulations on a fast track basis.
Work has begun on 30 of these kits/devices as per List 2 attached below. These were on display at the second Eat Right Mela, organised in New Delhi recently.
Pawan Kumar Agarwal, chief executive officer, FSSAI, informed that the regulator would spend over Rs 20 crore and procure rapid food testing kits and devices. These would be provided to field officers through the state governments.
He hoped that various states would also buy such kits/devices from the GeM portal to make them widely available with the enforcement officials. Once, such kits and devices are widely used for regulatory purposes, the food industry would also begin to use them for internal quality assurance and quality control purposes.
Agarwal pointed that there is a market potential of Rs 1,000 crore for such kits/devices in India alone. He hoped that the wider use of rapid food testing kits and devices for food testing would be a game-changer for India in 2020, and build greater public confidence in food available in the marketplace.
List 1: Approved rapid kits/devices
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Serial
Number
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Test
kit name
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Manufacturer
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Matrices
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1
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Raman
–1: Edible oils and fats
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Oak
Analytics India Pvt Ltd
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Edible
oils
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2
3
4
5
6
7
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Extenso
kit 075/kit 275: Veterinary drug and antibiotics
Bioeasy
(M1): Aflatoxin
Coliform
count plates: Total coliform Aerobic count plates: Aerobic count
Petrifilm Staph Express Count Plate + Disks): Staphylococcus
aureus
Petrifilm
EC plate: Enterobacteriaceae count
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Unisensor,
Belgium Indifoss Analytical Pvt Ltd 3M India Ltd, Bengaluru
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Milk
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8
9
10
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Colilert
and Colilert-18: Total coliform Pseudalert: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Alcolyzer
ME: Alcoholic beverages
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IDEXX
Lab Pvt Ltd
Anton
Paar India Pvt Ltd
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Water
and alcoholic
beverages
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11
12
13
14
15
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Compact
Dry (Coliforms): Coliforms Salmonella Velox: Salmonella
Petrifilm
aerobic count plates: Aerobic count
E
coli/coliform count plate: E coli/coliform count
Petrifilm
Staph Express Count Plate +
Disks:
Staphylococcus aureus
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Nissui
Pharma, Japan DNA Diagnostic, Denmark 3M India Ltd, Bengaluru
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Meat
and meat products; fish and fish products
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16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
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Reveal
2.0: E coli
Petrifilm
Staph Express Count Plate + Disks: Yeast and mold
PetrifilmY&M
count : Yeast and mold Compact sry (E coli): E coli compact Dry
(TPC): Total plate count compact Dry (BC): Bacillus cereus compact
Dry (SA): Staphylococcus aureus
Compact
Dry (Y&M): Yeast and
mold
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Neogen
(India) Pvt. Ltd 3M India Ltd, Bengaluru
Nissui
Pharma, Japan
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Raw
and finished food
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24
25
26
27
28
29
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Vitek
2 compact: Pathogens Vidas (Tempo): Pathogens
Analytical
profile index: Pathogens GeneUP: Virus and pathogens
Vidas:
Pathogens
Reveal
Q+Max: Pathogens
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Biomerieux
S A, France
Neogen
(India) Pvt Ltd
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Automated
system for rapid detection of pathogens in food
matrices
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List 2: Indigenously-developed rapid kits/devices
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Serial
number
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Test
kit name
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Name
of the developer/institute
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Matrices
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1
2
3
4
5
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Formaldehyde
detection kit
Ammonia
detection kit
17
a MT ELISA Kit : Hormones 17 a, 20 ß DIOHP ELISA kit
11-KT
ELISA kit: Hormones
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ICAR-CIFT,
Kochi
(commercialised by HiMedia Laboratories)
NIHFW,
New Delhi
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Fish
and fish products
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6
7
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Argemone
oil detection kit
Mustard
oil check
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CSIR-IITR,
Lucknow
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Edible
oils
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8
9
10
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Iron
fortified salt iodised salt
Salt
iodine rapid test
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NIN
Hyderabad HLL Lifecare Ltd (Commercialised by-HLL
Lifecare
Ltd)
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Iron
fortified salt
Salts
Iodised
salt
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11
12
13
14
15
16
17
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Food
animal species identification Carotenoid-based assay to ascertain
the cattle origin of tissues
Natural
dye-based time temperature indicators
Natural
dye-based quality evaluation of frozen/chilled mutton and chicken
ELISA
kit for Dexamethosone ELISA kit for MPA
ELISA
kit for Prednisolone
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ICAR-IVRI,
Izatnagar
DFRL,
Mysuru NIHFW, New Delhi
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Meat
and meat products
Frozen/chilled
mutton and chicken
Meat
and meat products
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18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
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Kit
for detection of adulteration in milk - small, medium, large
KEMAT
- Milk goMATA - Milk
Kit
for detection of adulteration in milk
Spore-based
kit for detection of antibiotic residues
Milk
test (Strip-based) Antibiotics milk test (Strip-based)
Pesticide
Milk Progesterone
ELISA/LFIA
L-lactate
sensing using nanomaterials
Strip
assay to check
adulteration
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NDDB,
Anand (Commercialised by Jupiter Glass Works) Dayalbagh
Educational Institute, Agra
NDRI,
Karnal
(Commercialised by Delmos Research Pvt Ltd)
NDRI,
Karnal (Commercialised by Florecer Services Ltd)
NIHFW,
New Delhi NIFTEM, Kundli
CSIR-IITR,
Lucknow
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Milk
adulteration (detergent, neutralisers, urea, hydrogen peroxide,
glucose, maltodextrin, sucrose)
Milk
Milk,
baby milk
Milk
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28
29
30
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Total
aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1 and G2)
Rapid
testing Kit for differentiation of pathogens
Biokit
for detection of organophosphate
and
organocarbamate
pesticides
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NIFTEM,
Kundli
IIT,
Gandhinagar
BARC,
Mumbai
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Cereal,
pulses, fruits, vegetables and bseverages
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