Angolan Customer Introduces Lanende Mycotoxin Detector to Guard Against Ochratoxin in Coffee Beans

Recently, a large-scale coffee production and export enterprise in Angola, an important African coffee-producing region, has officially completed the purchase of the mycotoxin rapid detector from Shandong Lanende Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and put it into special detection operations for ochratoxin A (Ochratoxin A) in coffee beans. This initiative not only fills the gap in the precise and rapid detection of mycotoxins in the local coffee industry chain but also, with the core concept of "technology empowering enterprise efficiency", adds an intelligent protective lock to the international market competitiveness and consumer safety of Angolan coffee. It can fully cover the dual detection scenarios of green and roasted coffee beans, adapting to the quality control needs of the entire coffee production process.

v Case Background: Invisible Risks in Coffee Beans

During the planting, harvesting, storage and transportation processes, coffee beans are prone to mold growth due to temperature and humidity conditions, producing harmful mycotoxins such as ochratoxin A. This risk runs through the entire links of green bean drying, storage, roasted bean processing, and finished product storage and transportation. The toxin is nephrotoxic and potentially carcinogenic. The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), as well as the European Union and the United States, have set limits on its residue in coffee, with clear definitions of the limit standards for both green and roasted coffee beans. As an important African coffee-producing region, Angola has seen a continuous increase in the safety and quality requirements for coffee beans in the export market in recent years. The traditional detection method relying on laboratories, which takes 2 to 3 days, can no longer meet the dual needs of rapid screening of green and roasted coffee beans at the production site and batch release, becoming a bottleneck restricting enterprises from expanding into high-end export markets.

v Solution: Multi-Channel Fluorescent Quantitative Rapid Detection Lands in Angola, Adapting to Full-Scenario Detection of Green and Roasted Beans

Shandong Lanende Intelligent Technology has customized an ochratoxin detection scheme for coffee beans based on the mycotoxin rapid detector for the customer, which takes into account the detection needs of both green and roasted coffee beans and adapts to the full-process control of coffee production. Its core highlights include:

v Precise Targeted Detection, Covering Full Scenarios of Green and Roasted Beans

Adopting the principle of fluorescence immunochromatography, the instrument can accurately and quantitatively detect ochratoxin A in green and roasted coffee beans, with a quantitative range of 2–400 μg/kg. It fully covers the common pollution levels of green and roasted coffee beans and accurately matches the limit requirements of international trade for coffee beans at different processing stages. The detection process only takes 12 minutes, with simple sample pretreatment and no need for complex equipment, which greatly shortens the time from sampling to result. It can quickly complete the full-link detection tasks such as green bean purchase screening and roasted bean processing re-inspection.

v Multi-Toxin Simultaneous Detection Capability to Build a Comprehensive Risk Defense Line

The 6 independent detection channels can run different projects simultaneously. In addition to ochratoxin A, it can also detect aflatoxin B1, vomitoxin, zearalenone, fumonisin, and T-2 toxin. It can simultaneously screen multiple potential mycotoxin risks in green and roasted coffee beans, meeting the needs of parallel screening of multiple risk factors in coffee beans. There is no need to add additional detection equipment, reducing the enterprise's detection cost.

v Laboratory-Level Stability and Intelligent Operation to Reduce the Threshold of Use

It fully adopts imported fluorescent microspheres with uniform particles, which fundamentally solves the problem of reproducibility fluctuations within and between batches, and the detection accuracy is comparable to professional laboratory equipment. Equipped with a built-in Android intelligent operating system and a 7-inch high-definition touch screen, it supports WiFi networking and remote OTA upgrades. Operators can independently complete the detection after simple training, without the need for professional detection personnel on duty, adapting to the configuration needs of the local enterprise's detection team.

v Both Portability and Data Security, Adapting to Multi-Scenario Control

Equipped with a precision trolley case with military-grade shockproof and IP54 waterproof performance, a silent universal wheel and an aviation aluminum lightweight design, it is convenient for mobile use in multiple scenarios such as coffee plantations, green bean warehouses, roasted bean processing plants and ports, realizing "on-site sampling, on-site detection and on-site result output". The data storage capacity is ≥100,000 pieces, supporting multiple transmission methods such as USB, WiFi, Bluetooth and network port. The detection results can be printed in real time and generate reports with traceability information, which can be directly connected to the export trade traceability system to help enterprises pass the inspection of importing countries smoothly.

v Deployment in Line with Coffee Industry Processes to Achieve Full-Cycle Control

Each batch is screened during the green coffee bean purchase link to promptly remove moldy and contaminated beans and control the raw material quality from the source; during the storage period, the ochratoxin risk of green and roasted coffee beans is regularly monitored to prevent excessive toxin accumulation and ensure storage safety; double re-inspection is carried out after roasted bean processing and before export to ensure compliance with the limit standards of importing countries for green and roasted coffee beans, reducing the risk of trade returns and brand losses.

v Case Significance: Technology Going Global to Guard Global Food Safety

This cooperation is the first in-depth landing of Lanende Intelligent Technology's full-chain food rapid detection scheme from "farmland to table" in the African coffee industry, as well as a successful practice of its rapid detection technology adapting to the dual detection scenarios of green and roasted coffee beans, fully reflecting the company's technical strength and international service capabilities in the field of mycotoxin detection.

For enterprises, replacing the traditional laboratory detection process with rapid detection technology realizes the full-cycle risk control of green and roasted coffee bean purchase, storage, processing and export, greatly improving operational efficiency. At the same time, it helps enterprises meet the quality requirements of high-end export markets and enhance product premium capacity. For the industry, it provides a replicable and promotable intelligent rapid detection model for the mycotoxin prevention and control of tropical cash crops such as coffee, promoting the standardization, intelligence and international integration of detection in Angola and even African coffee-producing regions. For society, it reduces the potential threat of ochratoxin to human health through technological means. Both the raw material safety of green bean processing and the drinking safety of roasted bean finished products can be effectively guaranteed, allowing global consumers to drink every cup of Angolan coffee more safely and at ease.

v Conclusion

In Angola's vast coffee plantations, busy green and roasted bean processing plants and export terminals, Lanende mycotoxin detectors are guarding the quality lifeline of every green bean and every batch of roasted beans with accurate, rapid and stable performance. This is not only a model of transnational technological cooperation but also a vivid practice of "technology empowering enterprise efficiency" on the global food safety front - letting the light of technology illuminate the safe journey of every coffee bean from planting to drinking, helping Angolan coffee move towards a broader international stage.