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Alcohol

Alcohol can be measured in  Clinical Research and Industrial, Commercial & Biotechnology applications.

Industry & Biotechnology

Alcohol can be measured in these areas:

  • Biotechnology & pharmaceutical applications
  • Food & beverage applications
  • Toiletry manufacture

Clinical & Research

Alcohol can be measured in these areas:

  • Clinical Pathology
  • Alcoholism Research

Industry & Biotechnology

Please click on ethanol and methanol analytes to find out more.

Principle

Please click on ethanol and methanol analytes to find out more.

Technical Summary


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Analysers

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Clinical & Research

A rapid high performance analysis for plasma and serum Alcohol.

Principle

In the presence of molecular oxygen, ethanol is oxidised by the enzyme alcohol oxidase to acetaldehyde and hydrogen peroxide:




Under the conditions of the assay, oxygen consumption is directly proportional to ethanol concentration.

Technical Summary

Samples Plasma, serum, urine, precipitated whole blood (neutralised)
Sample Volume 5µl
Analysis Time 20 seconds
Linearity

0 - 43 mmol/L (0 - 200 mg/dl) for 5 µl samples

Precision C.V. of 2.5 % @ 18.5 mmol/L (85 mg/dl) (whole blood)
Detection Limit 1 mmol/L (ca. 5 mg/dl)
Reagent Stability

Shelf-life unopened: 6 months stored at 0-5°C. 

Shelf-life reconstituted: AOD/buffer reagent, ca. 5 days stored at 0-5°C.


Notes:

Alcohol oxidase is non-specific towards ethanol. This assay will also detect other    low molecular weight alcohols, e.g. methanol.

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