Charm Tests for the Meat and Poultry Industry
Charm provides many types of rapid diagnostic test that can help the Meat and Poultry industry improve food safety and quality. Antibiotics are a vital component in the treatment, prevention and control of disease in the meat and poultry industry. To help ensure a residue-free finished product, Charm has developed multiple rapid antibiotic diagnostics for feed, water, live animal, and animal tissue testing. For example, the USDA FSIS recently awarded Charm Sciences a contract to provide Charm KIS Tests to USDA inspectors at slaughter facilities to screen for sulfonamides and antibiotic drugs under the National Residue Program. Charm’s ATP-based sanitation program provides an instant assessment of the surface hygienic status within meat and poultry slaughter houses and further processing facilities. The Charm CHEF Test can be used to quickly detects undercooked meat in cooked product using the same Charm ATP instrument.

Click on a tab below to find out more about each test.

• Charm II
• KIS Test
• CHEF
• PocketSwab
• FieldSwab
• WaterGiene
• AllerGiene

 

Charm II  Charm II is a multipurpose Liquid Scintillation Counter (LSC) and Luminometer System that can test a wide range of residues in meat tissues, dairy, animal urine, farmed fish, farmed shrimp, eggs, feed and honey. The variety of tests along with system reliability has made Charm II the “Gold Standard” worldwide in residue avoidance programs. Charm II is unmatched in its diagnostic menu for antibiotics/antimicrobial drugs.

KIS Test The Charm Kidney Inhibition Swab (KIS) is a simple to use inhibition test for screening broad-spectrum antimicrobial drugs in fresh or thawed kidney tissue. A modified procedure allows the KIS Test to be applied to poultry serum, animal feed, beef and porcine urine, and water.     KIS TEST AT A GLANCE      • Detect numerous antimicrobial drugs at or near Kidney        Tolerances and MRLs      • Results in ~ 3 hours      • Used by USDA-FSIS (Food Safety and Inspection Service)        inspectors at slaughter facilities      • Applications for water, feed extracts, poultry serum and        live animal urine      • Excellent for pre- and post-harvest HACCP and residue        avoidance programs

CHEF Test Charm CHEF (Cooking Heat EFficiency) Test is the first single-use, post-process indicator of compliance with the food time-temperature profile. Designed to quickly detect undercooked meat in cooked products, the CHEF Test measures phosphatase activity as an indication of meat "doneness".     CHEF TEST AT A GLANCE      • 5-minutes assay      • No enrichment or culture time      • Enables real-time corrective action and quality assurance      • Detect as little at 0.01% raw product      • Applications: Beef, Poultry, Pork, Seafood

PocketSwab Plus The PocketSwab Plus is a room-temperature stable, self-contained, single service rapid ATP hygiene test that enables total surface hygiene verification in less than 25 seconds.     POCKETSWAB PLUS AT A GLANCE      • Surface hygiene verification       • 1-year shelf-life at room temperature        • Total sanitation indicator: Microbial, product residue,        personal hygiene, SSOP deviation      • No reagent preparation      • Re-sealable foil bag for easy storage      • Recyclable components for low environmental impact

FieldSwab Charm FieldSwab is a room-temperature stable hygiene swab that rapidly detects ATP (adenosine triphosphate) as a measure of surface cleanliness. FieldSwab is uniquely engineered to allow food safety programs to be implemented outdoors in “field” type applications or environments.     FIELDSWAB AT A GLANCE      • Enhanced sensitivity to ATP       • Uniquely engineered to allow analysis outdoors in “field”        • 1-year shelf-life at room temperature      • No reagent preparation      • Foam tip pre-moistened with biofilm breaking agent      • Patented thread design for ease and repeatability           • Recyclable components for low environmental impact

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WaterGiene WaterGiene is a super-enhanced test to detect total ATP in water, which is a critical indicator of total biologic activity resulting from microorganisms, as well as plant, animal or food material. WaterGiene is the most sensitive ATP water quality test due to enhanced reagent chemistry and superior bioluminescence detection on the Charm novaLUM instrument.     WATERGIENE AT A GLANCE       WaterGiene is useful for detecting:        • ATP in Rinse Water         • ATP in Clean-in-Place (CIP) Systems         • ATP in Water Storage Tanks       • ATP on Cooling Towers (Water Economizers)       • ATP in Warmers       • ATP in Potable Water            • ATP in Post-Wastewater Treatment

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AllerGiene Charm AllerGiene is an ATP-based allergen control test designed to prevent cross-contact from allergenic food soil on process equipment. It measures ATP (adenosine triphosphate) at low levels as an indicator for the presence of food on wet-cleaned surfaces or rinse waters. By achieving a higher level of “clean”, better management of allergen control programs is achieved.     ALLERGIENE AT A GLANCE      • 30 second test       • Broad spectrum indicator test        • Achieve a higher level of “Clean”      • No reagent preparation or extraction      • ATP is common to multiple allergenic foods      • Patented thread design for ease and repeatability           • Recyclable components for low environmental impact

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