EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS IN THE FOOD CHAIN, FROM PRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATION
1.DESPITE VACCINES, INFECTIOUS DISEASES STILL THREATEN PRODUCTION ANIMALS
Production animal diseases cost $10B in lost productivity and threaten the human population when animal diseases jump to the human species
2.DESPITE ADVANCES, FOOD-BORNE ILLNESSES ARE STILL A MAJOR BURDEN FOR END CONSUMERS
Food-borne diseases impact 48 million Americans every year and cost the economy more than $55 billion/year.
OUR CURRENT DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FORCE US TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ACCURACY AND SPEED
Our testing tools are expensive, cumbersome and take too long to provide results, meaning we can't prevent contamination or respond to threats quickly enough
Rapid diagnostic tests (like Lateral Flow Analysis – LFA or Elisa) give quick results but are not very sensitive. Because they have a tendency to provide false negatives, they need to be repeated frequently.
Accurate diagnostic tests (like the “gold standard” qPCR) are very sensitive but take time to provide results. Because they require expensive equipment and a trained staff, they are most frequently done in a central location. Therefore, samples need to be collected from the field and sent to a central lab where results are then returned after analysis. This process is cumbersome, can lead to adulteration of the samples during transport, costly and yield results in a minimum of 12h but most frequently take several days.
HYPERCELL’S SOLUTION:
Hypercell has developed a proprietary point-of-care diagnostic technology platform that is as accurate as the gold standard PCR, 10x faster, and without expensive lab equipment.
Hypercell allows the detection of biological contaminants in the food chain - from production to transformation - quickly, early, frequently and with precision.