Our technology

The technology is covered by a suite of patents but key to the method is that it does not require the physical separation of the materials to be analysed and can simultaneously measure multiple toxins. Put simply it replaces the ‘high pressure plumbing’ used in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with software that ‘does the work for you’.

The ToxiMet system comprises of the ToxiQuant instrument together with a disposable cartridge. It offers users a highly significant step forward in the simultaneous measurement and identification of mycotoxins. 

The extract from the substrate to be analysed is immobilised on the disposable cartridge. The cartridge is then illuminated with light which causes the extract to fluoresce. This fluorescence is detected by a spectrometer and the spectrometer output is chemometrically analysed to provide a rapid digital read out of the presence and quantity of the different constituents, in this case mycotoxins.

The ToxiMet system is a platform technology whose use can potentially be broadened to the analysis of many materials. The key requirement is that if the substrate does or can be made to emit a signal when light is shone on it, and if that signal can be detected and chemometrically analysed, then the ToxiMet system is ideal as a qualitative and quantitative analytical method.