Switch from Standard to SMART – and speed up your workflow

Faster Mycotoxin Sample Preparation - Same performance with LCTech SMART Cartridge

In mycotoxin analysis, reliable results are essential – but increasingly, speed matters just as much. Food manufacturers, quality control laboratories and contract laboratories need to react quickly to potential contamination, release products without unnecessary delays and provide analytical results as efficiently as possible.

This is where the LCTech SMART Cartridge make the difference.

Compared with LCTech 3 mL Standard Cartridge, the SMART Cartridge enable faster sample preparation while providing comparable analytical performance.

Same applications. Faster sample preparation.

Mycotoxins such as aflatoxins and ochratoxin A can occur in a broad variety of food and feed matrices. Different matrices can present very different analytical challenges – from complex compositions, matrix burden impuritie to highly heterogeneous samples.

The SMART Cartridge are suitable for the same broad range of matrices as the corresponding 3 mL Standard Cartridge- just downscaling opertional volumes-without rendering sensitivity or matrix compliance, making the switch to a faster workflow straightforward.

Typical matrices include:

• Nuts and dried fruits
• Cereals and grain products
• Coffee
• Spices/herbs
• Milk and dairy products
• Processed and packaged foods
• Other challenging or heterogeneous samples
• Feedingstuff (DDGS; rearing feed, silage, pet food)

The SMART format is also particularly beneficial when only small amounts of sample material are available, for example in specialized applications such as house dust analysis or for pharmaceutical relevant samples or expensive spices.

LCTech application notes and comparative application data demonstrate the performance of the SMART Cartridge across different matrices and provide a direct comparison with the established 3 mL Standard Cartridge.

Faster analysis when food safety requires rapid action

Recent product recalls related to aflatoxins and ochratoxin A demonstrate how important rapid and reliable mycotoxin testing remains throughout the food supply chain.

When potentially contaminated products are identified, every hour can matter. Laboratories need to generate reliable results quickly so that manufacturers, retailers and authorities can make data-secured decisions and take appropriate action.

Switching from 3 mL Standard Cartridges to SMART Cartridges help accelerate the sample preparation step and can therefore contribute to reducing the overall time from sample to result and shorten the delay in decision or action for food safety.

This means faster analytical information is available when it matters most – supporting rapid decisions to protect food and consumer safety.

Faster product release – lower waiting and storage costs

Speed is not only important in the event of contamination or a product recall. It can also have a direct economic impact on everyday quality control.

Products awaiting analytical clearance may need to remain in storage before they can be released for sale. Delayed analytical results can therefore contribute to:

• Longer product release cycles
• Increased storage requirements
• Production or logistics backlogs
• Delayed availability of finished products
• Additional operational costs

By reducing sample preparation time compared with the 3 mL Standard Cartridges, the SMART Cartridges can contribute to shorter analytical turnaround times and faster product release decisions.

For food manufacturers, faster testing can help prevent quality control from becoming a bottleneck between production and release to market.

Make the switch from Standard to SMART

For laboratories already working with LCTech 3 mL Standard Cartridges, switching to SMART Cartridges offers a straightforward opportunity to make mycotoxin sample preparation faster and more efficient.

The principle is simple:

Same applications. Same reliable performance. Faster sample preparation.

Whether the goal is to react faster to potential contamination, accelerate product release, reduce laboratory backlogs or increase sample throughput, the LCTech SMART Cartridge help laboratories move from sample to decision faster.

Switch from Standard to SMART – because faster results enable faster decisions.

Discover the LCTech SMART Cartridge and see how switching from the established 3 mL Standard Cartridges can make your mycotoxin analysis workflow more efficient and contact us at sales@lctech.de.