Ultra-Sensitive System for Allergy Testing

Agilent Technologies, Inc announced the availability of the HYCOR Ultra-Sensitive EIA System for allergen-specific IgE. The HYCOR Ultra-Sensitive EIA System is FDA-cleared for quantitative determination of specific IgE. Using a unique assay design, the system provides quantitative specific IgE detection with testing capacity sized for moderate to higher-volume labs. Based on proven technology, the system combines quantitative accuracy, precision and sensitivity with fully automated robotics to deliver a new level of performance and productivity, and has been designed to offer laboratories an overall cost-per-test advantage over alternative methods.

"HYCOR has a tradition of providing high-quality allergy testing systems that enable labs to provide physicians with accurate results in a way that is cost effective," said Skip Thune, HYCOR’s General Manager. "The new system has the throughput capacity to allow us to offer the HYCOR cost-effective specific IgE testing solution to larger allergy testing customers that our other systems were too small to properly address. It also sets a new standard for reliable measurement of low levels of specific IgE."

The new system combines the precision and accuracy of fully automated robotic reagent dispensing with a newly formulated high-sensitivity assay design resulting in superior test performance. A complete menu of clinically important allergens is available with the system and it is QSR, ISO 13485, ISO 9001 and CLSI compliant. The HYCOR Ultra-Sensitive EIA System expands HYCOR’s portfolio of solutions for allergy testing that already includes the HYTEC 288 Plus.

The HYTEC 288 Plus is a fully automated immunoassay system for the performance of allergy and autoimmune antibody testing, and for user-defined ELISA commercial or laboratory developed assays. The Ultra-Sensitive EIA System is available globally and the menu of assays used with the HYTEC 288 system is compatible with the new system.