Sample Preconcentration System (SPS)
Many water borne pathogens are sufficiently virulent to affect personnel exposed to the water (bathing or drinking) at extremely low concentrations (as low as 1 organism/10 L), which offers the challenge to detect these pathogens at those levels. This problem is twofold: handling large volumes to increase the chance of detection and/or having a test with sufficient sensitivity to detect the low concentrations.
To address these challenges, ANP Technologies Inc. has developed a Sample Preconcentration System that uses tangential flow filtration technology to concentrate biological contaminants in water sources or supplies to a level high enough to be readily detected. When coupled with our NIDS® Detection System consisting of immunoassays and automated reader, the Preconcentrator is the first stage in a complete detection system that can be used to monitor water supplies for a wide variety of Biological Warfare (BW) agents and non-BW water borne pathogens.
Rapidly and reliably concentrate biological
contaminants from a variety of water sources
System is highly portable for use as a
stand-alone or interfaced to large scale water
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