Food Quality Monitors,
The technology now exists to enable the testing for multiple allergens from an equipment wipe sample, post sanitation. The test would provide digital quantitative results via a portable detector and do this on the production floor in 5 mins. The cost per allergen tested would be about $2 USD, however the portable instrument would represent a capital equipment cost in the $20K USD range. My estimates are that the break-even point for this system, as compared to an allergen flow-strip test, would be at about 1000 tests. At that point the saving/test would offset the cost of the instrument.
Would food producers see value in this testing capability, or is the current process of using allergen testing to validate SSOPs proving good enough? Do you think the increased emphasis on prevention from the FSMA will change the demand for allergen testing?
Thanks for any feedback on this.
Tom
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