Diagnostic Innovations Limited (D.I.L.) is a company dedicated to meeting fully the evolving
needs and expectations of its current and potential customers, suppliers and employees.
It guarantees the quality of the products and services it provides, and if any of these fail
to meet customer expectations it will work diligently to ensure complete redress.
D.I.L. was formed in 2004 and operates from a facilities in St. Asaph, North Wales. Technical Director, Phil Goodwin has over thirty years experience in the field of in vitro diagnostic testing for medical diagnostics/research, pharmaceutical analysis and food testing applications. He has been directly responsible for the commercialisation of numerous immunoassays and other diagnostic techniques for e.g. Helicobacter pylori diagnosis, diabetes and osteoporosis management, food allergen, wheat gluten, mycotoxin and meat species detection, food composition and a variety of other food testing analyses.
Food Testing Products: As well as developing its own Imutest brand of laboratory ELISA and on-site FlowThrough(TM) test kits for food-related analyses (wheat gluten, food allergens, environmental swabbing), D.I.L. offers products from partner companies around the world that also offer innovative, high quality, cost-effective solutions to meet food analysts needs. Our partners include:
* Vicam Inc. (USA; mycotoxins detection by HPLC/fluorometry/on the spot tests)
* Tecna Srl. (Italy; antibiotics; anabolics; veterinary drug residues; mycotoxins)
Food Analysis Consultancy: D.I.L. can assist food manufacturers to ensure that their products meet increasing consumer pressures and the resultant legislative controls designed to ensure safe foods:
* Mycotoxins legislation is becoming increasingly complex world-wide;
* E.C. Regulations, based on revised Codex Standard 118, have redefined gluten free and introduced the concept of very low gluten foods.
* EC Directive 2003/89, now fully implemented, requires mandatory labelling of designated food allergens;
* U.K. Food Standards Agency and U.S. FDA guidelines concerning may contain labelling best practice require a greater understanding of this difficult problem by food manufacturers.
Careful analysis of manufacturing processes and intelligent use of the increasing number of analytical tools available, such as environmental surface swabs, in-house use of commercial testing kits and rapid, on-site tests, as well as external contract analysis can help validate your clean-down routines, comply with external audit requirements and improve the quality of the food you produce.
