Technology Advantages
The Solus™ assays compete directly with the established microbiological testing methods. Current microbiological testing technologies are slow and relatively complicated with most testing in the food industry falling into 3 categories:
- Traditional culture methods typically taking 5-7 days
- ELISA tests typically taking 40-50+ hours
- PCR tests typically taking ~16 -20 hours for specific food matrices
The main advantages of the Solus method can be summarised as follows:
- speed of test (including enrichment) significantly reduced
- accuracy at least as good as ELISA or PCR
- cost equal or less than ELISA and substantially less expensive than PCR
- only one stage of enrichment and simplified assay procedures in lab
- reduced lab handling and mixing of enrichment media products
- testing procedure similar to ELISA - minimal staff training required
- assay fully compatible with automatic ELISA testing systems, save for a luminometer replacing the colourimeter at the reading stage
- Solus flash chemiluminescence is 300x more sensitive than ELISA colourmetic systems