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What makes a great food testing lab partner?
Charon Willis from PAS highlights some key considerations to bear in mind when it comes to ensuring the right level of partnership from contract laboratories.
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Application note: Automating matrix matched pesticide standard generation
Automated preparation of matrix matched pesticide calibration standards in QuEChERS food extracts combined with filtration and LC/MS analysis.
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NIST expands database to help identify unknown compounds in milk
Using liquid chromatography, NIST researchers have doubled their database of oligosaccharides in milk, which they say could help infant formula manufacturers to develop optimised products.
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Uwe Oppermann
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Uwe Oppermann is the Manager of the European Food Market at Shimadzu Europa GmbH.
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Application Note: Determination of thirteen beta agonists in pork using ultra high-performance liquid chromatography – Tandem Mass Spectrometry
PerkinElmer evaluate the administration of beta-agonists as growth-promoting agents in food-producing animals.
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Webinar Highlights: PFAS analysis
In a recent webinar hosted by New Food, Phenomenex discussed critical sample preparation and chromatography contributions for effective trace PFAS quantification in various sample matrices by LC-MS/MS.
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Application Note: Determination of stevioside and rebaudioside A in stevia leaves, beverages and food additives using HPTLC-MS
High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography coupled with Mass Spectrometry (HPTLC–MS) is a very useful analytical technique where samples can often be analysed with a minimum of sample preparation.
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Chocolate ‘fingerprints’ could confirm label claims
Researchers have developed a method to determine the chemical 'fingerprint' of chocolate, in order to accurately track its origin and detect fraudulent activity across its supply chain.
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Application Note: Using the MALDI Biotyper® for microbial identification at the China Center of Industrial Culture Collection (CICC)
Matrix assisted laser desorption/ ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) with the MALDI Biotyper® (MBT) is used at the China Center of Industrial Culture Collection (CICC) to identify strains.
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Detecting fraud – a discussion with Michele Suman
Ahead of Food Integrity 2020, New Food’s editor speaks to Michele Suman, who will be discussing validation of non-targeted mass spectrometry methods to detect food frauds at Food Integrity 2020.
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The mycotoxin evolution
Dr Sheryl Tittlemier from the Canadian Grain Commission looks at the progress of food safety assurance, examining the latest developments in mycotoxin analysis.
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Application Note: Determination of Pesticides in Tea Automated with FREESTYLE QuEChERS and LC-MS/MS
QuEChERS has become the most important analytical method in routine pesticide labs for food and feed samples. In particular, nearly all types of fruits and vegetables are analysed with this methodology worldwide for several hundred pesticides applied in agriculture.
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5 main areas which contribute to supplying food safety services to customers around the globe
The business of contract testing labs in terms of feed and food contaminants is driven by five main topics which at the end contribute to a real positive growth of this niche market. These topics are: 1) Of course regulations oblige goods producers to deliver safe products to the market…
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Proteomics of Shellfish Allergens: Using LC-MS to Detect Important Food-Borne Allergens
In 2004 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) passed a law that describes the requirements for allergen labelling and customer protection (Public law 108 – 282 Title II).
