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HistaStrip

The HistaStrip Test Kit is a convenient dipstick technology for rapid and reliable histamine detection in just 4 minutes.

This visual semi-quantitative test analizes seafood, milk, fish sauce, or fish meal without the need for organic solvents or complex procedures. Get accurate and efficient results backed by ISO 9001 and ensure the safety and quality of your products.

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Overview

Rapid & Convenient Testing Versatile & Accurate Detection Full Quantitative Analysis & Data Management

Get visual semi-quantitative results in 4 minutes, helping you save time, enabling quick decision-making, and using it in the laboratory or on-field.

Reliable results with detection capabilities below global action levels. The embedded enzyme technology ensures precise reactions for accurate readings in various sample types.

Enhance your test process with the portable QuickSTAR Horizon Strip Reader to determine the exact levels of histamine in samples, save data directly to a computer and monitoring test results trends over time.


The HistaStrip Test Kit is the most convenient solution for rapid and hassle-free histamine detection. With our dipstick technology, you can visually identify unsafe levels of histamine in just 4 minutes, without the need for organic solvents or heating steps.

Designed to test various sample types, our test strips are embedded with a specialized enzyme that reacts specifically with histamine, resulting in a color change. This visual semi-quantitative test allows for easy interpretation of results, as the strip's pad swiftly transitions from white to a color that corresponds to the histamine concentration found in the sample. This kit detection capabilities are well below global action levels, ensuring accurate and reliable outcomes.

Whether you're conducting tests in a professional laboratory or in the field, the self-contained and user-friendly HistaStrip makes histamine testing very simple. Simply dip the strip into your sample and interpret the results.

The HistaStrip Test Kit adheres to the international quality standard by AFNOR to ISO 9001, ensuring that you receive a reliable and accurate testing experience.

For those seeking full quantitative results, the HistaStrip is compatible with the QuickSTAR Horizon Strip Reader. This reader allows you to determine the exact levels of histamine in your sample, save your data to a computer or quality assurance system and maintain a record of analysis.

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Specifications

Detection Limit Seafood: 15-25, Fish Meal: 50, Fish Sauce: 60-75, Milk: 6-10 ppm
Quantity in a Package Amount 25.0 Tests
Research Areas Food & Agriculture
Sample Type Seafood, Fish Meal, Fish Sauce, Milk
Technology Type Lateral Flow Immunoassay
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Quantitative Detection of Histamine in Food Samples Using HistaStrip Test Kit with Portable QuickSTAR Horizon Strip Reader

Histamine is a naturally occurring contaminant that can be found in improperly handled seafood. Quality tuna has histamine levels below 50 ppm and high levels of histamine in seafood can cause scombroid food poisoning. Scombroid poisoning is one of the most common fish food-borne illnesses occurring ...

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Validation of the HistaStrip Test Kit for the detection of histamine in seafood and other food matrices

Histamine poisoning is the second leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States, accounting for nearly one in fifty of the total cases of food-borne illness in the US. PerkinElmer has developed the HistaStrip™ Test Kit to offer a convenient solution for quick, quantitative, field-based sc ...

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Meat and Seafood Testing Solutions

Food testing labs like yours are constantly challenged with accurately analyzing samples quickly and efficiently - all while striving to reduce costs due to market forces. Your commitment to ensuring meat and seafood are safe for consumption, as demand increases, is an uphill battle. Our commitment ...

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HistaStrip Test Kits

The HistaStrip Test Kit is a convenient dipstick technology used for the rapid visual detection of histamine in seafood, fish meal, milk, and fish sauce. The test strips can detect unsafe levels of histamine in only 4 minutes without the use of organic solvents or heating steps.

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Superior Seafood Testing all in One Place

As a leader in the food and feed safety testing industry, PerkinElmer develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of seafood diagnostic kits for the detection of antibiotic, histamine, and phycotoxin residues. Consider PerkinElmer your one-stop-shop for seafood safety test kits!

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