New Website Launched for GlutenTox Commercial Gluten Testing Kits

July 12, 2012 - PRLog -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 11, 2012 — As anyone keeping a gluten-free diet knows, avoiding gluten and maintaining a truly gluten-free lifestyle can be challenging.

The challenge extends to those companies and restaurants that produce gluten-free foods and products. Opportunities for cross-contamination are rampant; incoming ingredients that should be gluten-free often contain traces of wheat, barley, rye etc. Even pure ingredients can be accidentally contaminated on-site if the facility also handles gluten-containing ingredients.

Accordingly, Emport, LLC has launched the website http://www.glutentoxpro.com to provide tools and information for professionals working with the celiac community. This new website sheds light on three important products:

GlutenTox Pro, an easy-to-use lateral flow device used to detect trace amounts of gluten in foods and liquids, and on surfaces. The affordable test takes less than 20 minutes, requires no special equipment, and can be set to a threshold of 5, 10, 20 or 40ppm of gluten. GlutenTox Pro was designed for widespread use by manufacturers of gluten-free food, co-packers and bottlers, commercial kitchens and cafeterias that cook a gluten-free menu, and anyone looking to perform quality control audits on a food or facility.

GlutenTox Sticks, a semi-quantitative test kit that is designed for facilities that do a high volume of testing and/or have access to some basic lab equipment. Designed to work across a variety of matrices and with a minimum detection threshold of 3ppm gluten, the kit provides a user-friendly alternative to complicated and expensive ELISA tests.

GlutenTox Reader, an optional addition to GlutenTox Sticks that can quantify results as a precise ppm count in mere seconds. The GlutenTox Reader is an optical detector that offers accurate digitized information, perfect for larger companies, quality control departments and on-site laboratories.  

Additionally, glutentoxpro.com provides insight into the G12 antibody, the next-generation antibody trained on the toxic 33mer peptide of the alpha-gliadin molecule. Thanks to the G12 antibody, all GlutenTox test kits can detect gluten from wheat, barley, rye and even those strains of oat that are not inherently gluten-free. Because the G12 antibody is trained on the most toxic fragment of gluten, the GlutenTox kits are suitable for use with fermented, hydrolyzed, and otherwise processed foods.

The website will also soon feature a section of best practices and outside resources for companies wishing to ensure their products are gluten-free (and restaurants that are investigating a gluten-free menu).

Visit the website at: http://www.glutentoxpro.com

About Emport LLC: Started in 2011, Emport, LLC is dedicated to helping fellow celiacs stay safe, healthy, and well-fed. Emport, LLC distributes GlutenTox test kits in the US, including GlutenTox Pro and GlutenTox Sticks for professionals, and GlutenTox Home for individuals and families with celiac disease or gluten intolerance.

About Biomedal Diagnostics: Biomedal S.L. is a biotechnology company whose mission is to develop and commercialize new technologies, services and products for research, bioindustry and diagnostics. Biomedal Diagnostics offers a large variety of products and services related to human health. It already holds a position in the market of products for analysis related to immunological diseases, and rapid tools for food safety analysis. More information available at: http://www.biomedal.com/