The Future of
Rapid Food Safety Testing

Offering ‘one-work-shift’ results in 2-6 hours testing food samples
for pathogens like Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter and E.coli.

VPCIR.COM is a start-up biotech company set at disrupting the food safety industry. We base our solutions on a novel proprietary and patent pending technology for detection of food pathogens:
‘Viability Polymerase Circle Reaction’ or VPCIR.

VPCIR BENEFITS

The proprietary and patent pending VPCIR technology detects food pathogens by detecting enzyme activities expressed specifically by the pathogen. This novel approach to pathogen detection carries several benefits compared to standard techniques such as PCR and Immunoassays:

ONLY LIVING PATHOGENS

By using enzyme activities as the biomarker, VPCIR is able to discriminate between living and dead pathogens. This reduces the risk of falsely identifying a batch of food as contaminated. You get no false negatives with VPCIR technology.

RAPID ONE DAY RESULTS

Occasional contamination is inevitable and when it happens, fast action is the key to limiting the losses. VPCIR enables detection of very small amounts of the target pathogen without the need for lengthy cultivation steps.

SENSITIVE

VPCIR uses enzyme activity as biomarker. The inherent catalytic activity of enzymes is exploited to ensure a high degree of signal amplification. Moreover, each pathogenic cell may contain thousands of copies of the enzyme of interest, hereby adding even more sensitivity to the assay.

EASY HANDLING

Simple procedure, and no need for special equipment. Both small and larger labs can reuse their existing lab instruments and automation process.

COST EFFECTIVE

Costs highly competitive to current standard methods offering both direct savings and efficiency with an unbeatable value proposition.

UNIVERSAL PLATFORM

Can be adapted for detection of all prokaryotes. We also have a similar bio-marker based technology for detection of eukaryotes.

The World is talking!

“Danish biotechnology startup VPCIR is currently building proprietary and patent-pending novel technology: viability polymerase circle reaction (VPCIR), for the detection of food pathogens. The VPCIR technology detects enzymes expressed specifically by a pathogen. In comparison to conventional techniques like polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), this approach to pathogen detection is faster, adds higher sensitivity to assays, and also detects living pathogens.”

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The Future ofRapid Food Safety Testing

Offering ‘one-work-shift’ results in 2-6 hours testing food samplesfor pathogens like Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter and E.coli.