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Growth Promoter Multiple Matrix Screen Array

Cat. No: EV3726

Overview

Key Advantages:

  • Excellent Limit of Detections
  • Unique platform enabling detection of 38 growth promoter compounds
  • Detection of major metabolites and glucuronide forms
  • Feed Preparation method can also be used across multiple arrays.

Growth-promoting hormones have been used by the livestock industry for over 30 years to improve an animal's ability to more efficiently utilize nutrients and produce leaner, more affordable meat. Concerns over the use of hormones in food producing animals first arose during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of incidents linked hormone residues in meat with various medical conditions. As a result, the use of growth-promoting hormones in livestock production is either prohibited (European Union) or strongly regulated (e.g. USA, Canada and Australia). Compliance with these regulations is monitored by national monitoring programmes.

Assay Limits of Detection

  Urine(ppb) Tissue (ppb) Feed (ppb)
Beta-Agonists 0.2 0.2 8
Boldenone 0.8 0.5 140*
Corticosteroids 0.2 0.4 10
Nandrolone 2.0 1.4 170*
Ractopamine 0.2 0.3 2
Stanozolol 0.4 0.4 9
Stilbenes 0.4 0.9 25
Trenbolone 0.4 0.1 8
Zeranol 0.8 0.3 15

*Further dilution may be required for quantification

Assay Specificity

Assay   % Cross Reactivity
Beta-Agonists Clenbuterol 100
Carbuterol 104
Salbutamol 70
Methyl-clenbuterol 20
Cimbuterol 54
Terbutaline 22
Mabuterol 41
Pirbuterol 15
Mapenterol 113
Boldenone 17β-Boldenone 100
1,4-Androstadiene-3, 17-dione 55
17α-Boldenone 15
Boldenone Glucuronide 15
Corticosteroids Dexamethasone 100
Flumethasone 57
Betamethasone 31
Dexamethasone 21 acetate 27
Betamethasone 21 acetate 133
Nandrolone 19-Nortestosterone (17b) 100
Trenbolone (17b) 70
Trenbolone acetate 109
19-Nor-4-Androstene,3,17-Dione 143
19-Nortestosterone (17a) 27
19-Nortestosterone (17b) sulphate 55
19-Nortestosterone b Glucuronide 26
Trenbolone (17b) 70
Ractopamine Ractopamine 100
Ractopamine hydrochloride 100
Stanozolol Stanozolol 100
16 b-hydroxystanozolol 45
Stilbenes Hexestrol 100
Diethylstilbestrol 105
Diethylstilbestrol glucuronide 289
Dienestrol 72
Trenbolone Trenbolone (17-beta) 100
Trenbolone (17-alpha) 21
Zeranol Zeranol 100
α-Zearalenol 10

Used in conjunction with Feed Preparation Kit