Food and Beverage Analysis – News and Features

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. have announced a new, comprehensive and searchable compendium entitled “LC-MS Applications for Food, Beverage and Water Testing.” The compendium provides customers with access to a wealth of application expertise.

RecipharmCobra Biologics, the international manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals, today announces that it has published the results of a study to develop an oral vaccine against tuberculosis in the journal Vaccine.

The latest improvements in aseptic blow-fill-seal technology are providing more streamlined automation of critical B/F/S processing areas, while limiting human intervention and effectively reducing airborne microbial bioburden and particulate levels, and enhancing sterility assurance and patient safety.

The European Commission has released a compilation of the 50 research projects the EU has funded in the field of genetically modified (GM) crops since 2001. The projects, which received funding of €200m, have demonstrated that there is not yet any scientific evidence associating GM crops with higher risks for the environment or for food and feed safety than with conventional plants,

The finding supports the notion that the cholera bacteria fueling the outbreak arrived on the island via recent visitors.

Technology aims to revolutionize food safety by reducing identification time of food-borne bacteria.

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and ACD/Labs will work together in a five-year research collaboration to develop quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) toxicity models for FDA regulatory and research applications.

Aworkshop in March 2011 with scientists and risk assessors from EU Member States, industry and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to discuss its draft guidance document on the selection of comparators for the risk assessment of GM plants.

Dionex is pleased to announce that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Irvine, California have purchased the new, award-wining Dionex ICS-5000 (analytical and capillary scale) with Mass Spectrometry system for the analysis of biogenic amines (histamine, putrescine, and cadaverine) in fish samples.

Phytronix Technologies Inc. have announced that the company will move to its new production plant in December 2010. This move will support a bigger volume of sales of Phytronix' Laser Diode Thermal Desorption (LDTD) Ion Source.