Penicillins as well as cephalosporins are called beta-lactam antibiotics. Penicillins have been widely used in veterinary medicine for more than 30 years and today form the most important group of antibiotics. Beta-lactams are one of the most frequently used families of antibiotics in food producing animals and residues in food may present a potential health risk. It is this risk that drives the need for effective screening platforms, capable of detecting beta-lactam residues within the maximum residue limit.

Randox Food Diagnostics beta-lactam biochip array offers the perfect solution to these screening requirements, by detecting multiple antibiotic compounds from a single sample.