Vitamins: too much or not enough?

Edited by the Laboratorytalk editorial team Feb 5, 2007

VitaFast test kits from Arrow Scientific provide a fast and easy method of determining the content of vitamins in food products, animal feed and pharmaceutical products

An increasing number of food products are now being enriched with vitamins.

The vitamin content of these foods is monitored by manufacturers as well as by private laboratories and control authorities in order to comply with food standards across the world.

A novel assays for water soluble vitamins (VitaFast) have been introduced by Arrow Scientific.

VitaFast kits can be used in place of traditional assays and have a much shorter hands-on time.

The tests allow you to calculate both native and added vitamins.

They were developed according to AOAC and EU reference methods.

VitaFast test kits provide a fast and easy method of determining the content of vitamins in food products, animal feed and pharmaceutical products.

The microtitre plates for these microbiological assays are coated with specific microorganisms, which grow according to the presence/absence of vitamins in the sample.

After placing sample, standard and assay medium into the wells, the plates are incubated and subsequently evaluated using a microtitre plate reader.

Unlike traditional microbiological assays, all VitaFast kit reagents are ready for use.

The microtitre plate format allows a high degree of automation, thus achieving a significant reduction of labour while increasing precision.

The product line includes: folic acid, vitamin B12, biotin, niacin, pantothenic acid, thiamine, riboflavin and pyridoxine.

VitaFast is an excellent tool to ensure product quality in terms of monitoring processing, correct nutritional label information and stability of the vitamins in products over time.