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Article: Innovative Food Intolerance Test Now Screens More Foods.(Brief Article)
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- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- August 12, 2001
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2001 AUG 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
York Nutritional Laboratories announced it has increased the number of foods screened for immunoglobulin G (IgG)-mediated food allergy in its FoodSCAN Food Intolerance Test from 93 to 113 foods, while at the same time keeping its cost-effective pricing the same.
Using a unique food allergy test kit, an individual's finger is simply pricked to collect the tiny sample of blood required for testing. According to Martha Gonzalez, York Nutritional Laboratories, "The absorbent wand safely preserves the drop of blood until it reaches our laboratory, which is then tested against 113 foods. All the patient needs to do is ...