Minilab can quickly identify antibiotic residues in milk, before it leaves the barn

Friday, May 7, 2010 - 11:22 in Health & Medicine

Routine antibiotic residue tests used by the dairy industry take hours to produce a result and do not test for all antibiotics dairy cows are typically treated with. Scientists in Germany have developed a microarray chip that identifies residues from one or more of the 14 most important antibiotics with certainty and in parallel. In conjunction with an automated minilab, this enables rapid testing of raw, unpasteurized milk.

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