Our goals
Our goals
In addition to food safety and veterinary medicine, our method is also used for research in human medicine, for the personalized dosing of medications.
“Personalized medicine” for humans and animals therefore begins long before the individualized active substance molecule. At the same time, monitoring a drug’s blood level, and thereby determining the correct daily dose, is very difficult.
“Children are not small adults”
This statement from pharmacology has by now become almost a truism. Yet it is not only physical developmental stage that affects how a medication works for an individual. Sex, age, weight, and personal metabolism all determine which dose is needed for optimal effect. While it may not be a serious problem if a dose of aspirin or an anti diarrheal medication is slightly too high or too low, the situation is very different for cytostatic drugs or highly effective antibiotics, which are powerful but also carry the risk of severe side effects.
To date, no simple laboratory method exists in medical practices or on hospital wards to determine a patient’s drug blood level. Better dosing of medications can reduce side effects, shorten recovery time, and optimize medication use.
High quality and fast
Because our products are mobile and portable, food can be inspected as early as during production, transport, and processing. This seamless quality control reduces later recalls and food waste. The measurement of medications, particularly antibiotics, is well established in human medicine and is currently carried out in large laboratories. However, 80 percent of medications are prescribed in medical practices, which have neither the equipment nor the trained personnel of a large laboratory. Our method was therefore designed to be simple enough to operate with only brief training.
Our method can be considered in Europe as a fast alternative, and in developing countries as an important option, for the personalized dosing of medications.
Application in most areas
Our innovative products can also be used for other purposes, for example the simple and rapid monitoring of toxins in food, feed, or water. Further applications are also emerging in medicine, which our founders keep in view: “We see the development of innovative and affordable rapid diagnostics as our long term mission. Our quantitative POCT kits for the personalized dosing of medications are our first marketable products. We hope that, in the foreseeable future, we will be able to use one of our products in human medicine as well.”
