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A Portable Gluten Sensor for Celiac Disease Patients May Not Always Be Reliable Depending on the Food and the User

Marić, Alena 1; Scherf, Katharina Anne 1
1 Institut für Angewandte Biowissenschaften (IAB), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

A strict lifelong gluten-free (GF) diet is currently the only known effective treatment for celiac disease (CD), an inflammatory disorder of the small intestine with a worldwide prevalence of about 1%. CD patients need to avoid wheat, rye, and barley and consume GF foods containing <20 mg/kg of gluten. However, strict adherence to a GF diet tends to reduce the quality of life of CD patients compared to the general population and may lead to fear of inadvertent gluten consumption, especially when eating out. To help alleviate risk of gluten exposure, a portable gluten sensor was developed by Nima Labs that allows CD patients to test foods on site prior to consumption. With very limited independent information on the analytical performance of the Nima sensor available so far, our aim was to evaluate the reliability of the sensor using a variety of different foods with defined gluten content. All samples were tested with the sensor and analyzed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay as reference method. Of the 119 samples with gluten content ranging from 2 to 101,888 mg/kg tested in total, the sensor showed 80 positive (67.2%), 37 negative (31.1%) and 2 invalid results at the first of three consecutive measurements. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000136393
Veröffentlicht am 16.08.2021
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.712992
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Angewandte Biowissenschaften (IAB)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2296-861X
KITopen-ID: 1000136393
Erschienen in Frontiers in nutrition
Verlag Frontiers Media SA
Band 8
Seiten Art. Nr.: 712992
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 20.07.2021
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