Developers, manufacturers & distributors of test kits for food allergens, gluten, mycotoxins etc.
Mission Statement: 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 new facility in St. Asaph, North Wales. The 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. D.I.L. works in three main areas:
Food Testing Products: As well as developing its own HAVen 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 are:
* Vicam Inc. (USA; mycotoxins detection by HPLC/fluorometry/on the spot tests)
* Elisa Systems Pty. Ltd. (Australia; trace allergen residue detection)
* Elisa Technologies Inc. (USA; animal/meat species determination)
* 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; EC Directive 2003/89, now fully implemented, requires mandatory labelling of designated food allergens; finally, new 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 minimise this resource and greatly reduce the cost of compliance while improving food quality.
Diagnostics R&D Support: Given its long experience of assay commercialisation and high quality laboratory facilities, D.I.L. can offer a range of R&D services to companies and organisations wishing to bring their product idea to a wider audience. The company recently worked with a local hospital to finalise and launch a new ELISA for Survival Motor Neuron Protein to the medical research community to facilitate a drug discovery process. It is also working with companies that need to prove the feasibility of their novel techniques and properly document the methods before securing further funding or perhaps a collaborative arrangement with a larger partner.
