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TKT's Quick Tests – Introduction

The Philosophy Behind Our VERI-FRY^®
Frying Oil Quality Quick Tests

Test Kit Technologies (TKT) is committed to providing food processors and packers with the proper tools to ensure that the foods they market are of the highest quality. Although extremely powerful, many rapid and "quick test" methods are NOT utilized in the everyday course of food production and processing.

The reasons for lack of acceptance of these "quick tests" across the food industry vary from the unwillingness to consider newer, improved technologies, a perceived lack of simplicity of the tests, and unawareness of the operator that greater control over their operations is necessary. Note that many different types of "kits" or systems have existed for all phases of food production for some time, including microbiological load evaluation, chemical, and physical parameters, as well as other subjective parameters.

For a test kit to be fully accepted by manufacturing and quality control/assurance staff, the test kit must:

• Address and resolve a real-world analytical issue
• Be easy to use
• Be portable
• Be understandable by technical and non-technical people alike
• Correlate with a recognized analytical laboratory procedure
• Cost the same or less than the above noted lab procedure

TKT has developed and patented several quick test kits for evaluating frying oil quality. TKT is also continuing to develop additional types of kits for both aqueous and non-aqueous systems.