A Review on Lateral Flow Test Strip for Food Safety

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Background: Foodborne disease outbreaks from various food sources are a major health concern worldwide. Currentmethods for detection of foodborne pathogens are both expensive and time-consuming. Purpose: This review aims topresent the current information available on the use of lateral flow test strips to detect pathogens in food products toenhance food safety. Results: Frequent foodborne disease outbreaks from various food sources have increased the need forrapid and easy methods for routine analysis of foodborne pathogens. Present detection methods for foodborne pathogensrequire expensive instruments, experts, and long time for sample analysis. Lateral flow test strips have drawn attention inrecent years because of their ability to detect analytes quickly and easily. This review focuses on the principle of the lateralflow test, the various formats of lateral flow test strips, recognition elements, labeling tags, and reading instruments. Inaddition, this review also discusses the future prospects for the lateral flow test strips.

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