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Loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification (LAMP) for food microbiology testing; Best practice for crystallisation kinetics measurements via NMR; and MyToolBox – the smart way to tackle mycotoxins...
In this whitepaper, discover how ZEISS in cooperation with TQC Dienstleistungen e.K. can offer a robust solution for checking the quality of the constituents throughout the malting process...
18 August 2016 | By Shimadzu Europa GmbH
Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in Europe. In Germany, beer enjoys a particularly high status due to the German Beer Purity Law of 1516 (the “Reinheitsgebot”), which uniquely defines the ingredients of beer to be hops, malt, yeast and water...
14 March 2016 | By Ocean Optics
Ocean Optics enhances capabilities of NIRQuest series spectrometers...
14 March 2016 | By Ocean Optics
Ocean Optics expands Flame spectrometer line with versatile miniature NIR Spectrometer...
25 February 2016 | By Ocean Optics
Ocean Optics discuss applications of miniature, modular reflectance spectroscopy for Food Integrity using a dual channel Vis-NIR system including the new ultra-compact Flame-NIR spectrometer...
22 February 2016 | By Marena Manley, Professor, Stellenbosch University / Federico Marini, University Researcher, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Food adulteration, e.g. adulteration of spices, can be incidental or intentional. Incidental adulteration occurs when foreign substances are added to a food due to ignorance, negligence or using inadequate facilities. Intentional adulteration, also referred to as economic adulteration, entails the deliberate addition of inferior materials to a food to improve…
21 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Using a new technique, researchers have confirmed that the majority of saffron, labelled and exported as being from Spain, actually originates from other countries...
9 December 2015 | By Alex Webbe, Laboratory Manager, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) / Donna Byrom, Technical Specialist, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL)
One of the more interesting developments in recent years has been the introduction of Proton Transfer Reaction-Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS), a variant not on the way that ionised particles are detected, but on the way they are produced. The PTR technique is more ‘gentle’ in the way it applies a charge…
3 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The first model, the X500R, was designed exclusively for routine food, environmental and forensic testing labs based on extensive customer input...
7 September 2015 | By Victoria White
RSSL's new Proton Transfer Reaction Time of Fight Mass Spectrometer can identify the chemicals we sense by smell, at the moment we sense them...
4 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Union Park Capital has acquired Unity Scientific, a leader in the manufacturing and sales of near infrared instrumentation and wet chemistry analyzers...
1 September 2015 | By Puneet Mishra, Belén Diezma and Pilar Barreiro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
‘Nut’ is used to describe a wide range of seeds with a seed coat or shell. Because of high-energy content, micronutrients and positive global health impact, nuts have been present for centuries in human diet. However, over recent decades they have increasingly been found to induce adverse health effects. With…
29 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have developed a new method using MALDI-MS that allows for the rapid authentication of edible oils and screening of gutter oils...
29 June 2015 | By Victoria White
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has rescinded a recall of a batch of ground cumin sold by Bart after mahaleb gives false positive result for almond protein...
