New aflatoxin test approved by USDA-GIPSA (FGIS)

CHARM Sciences, Inc. has reported that its ROSA® WET®-S3 Aflatoxin Quantitative Test (AFQ-WETS3) has been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) for official testing of aflatoxin in the U.S. national grain inspection system. It has an official Certificate of Conformance from USDA/GIPSA (Certificate No. FGIS 2016-089) that declared the test kit meets the accuracy specifications for 5 to 300ppb aflatoxin in corn.

Charm is a provider of food safety, water quality and environmental diagnostics whose products are available in 100 countries. Its ROSA AFQ-WETS3 test is an immunoreceptor assay test utilizing ROSA (Rapid One-Step Assay) lateral flow technology and Water Extraction Technology (WET) that eliminates the use of organic solvents in the extraction of aflatoxin from corn. It delivers rapid, economical, accurate detection for aflatoxin in a convenient single strip. The test is simple to perform and yields results in 3 minutes on the ROSA-M Reader or Charm EZ-M system.