Food and Beverage Analysis – Multimedia

John O'Brien, Deputy Head, Nestle Research Center describes some of the challenges and opportunities for the food safety professional.

This talk presents the general principle of molecular imprinting, their optimization, and the synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymers using new approaches based on controlled/living radical polymerization and localized photopolymerization.

The objective of this presentation is to discuss the reduction of known mycotoxins through appropriate management of the industrial technologies, targeting worldwide solutions scientifically available, taking inspiration in particular from the last 2 years activities of the International Life Sciences Institute Europe.

This study recommends several ways that state policymakers can take action to implement federal food safety policies effectively and sustainably.

Despite huge research investments on mycotoxins and other toxic secondary metabolites of fungi and plants, prevention, control and proper exposure assessment remain difficult and agricultural and food industry continue to be vulnerable to problems of contamination.

We spoke to John Coady, Chief Audit & Investigations Manager, Food Safety Authority of Ireland, at Food Safety & Analysis 2016.

Our previous study of spices was designed to evaluate the metal content in the spices for evidence of contamination by heavy metals or for adulteration and counterfeiting by notable concentrations of wear or additive metals. This study targeted the same spice samples to quantify the characteristic primary and secondary market compounds for each spice group.

With greater portability than real-time PCR instrumentation, the AmpliFire produces rapid and accurate results in the field or in the lab without cumbersome equipment or reagents. In a recent study, the AmpliFire® accurately detected the presence of Salmonella enterica using both purified genomic DNA and a crude sample preparation method, making it a powerful tool for point of use applications.

Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) is a powerful tool for the quantification of microorganisms and are used in many fields. In this study commercially available microbial NAT kits were successfully miniaturized from 20 µL to 1.6 µL reaction volumes using the IntelliQube. The IntelliQube delivers efficient and economical high throughput sample processing for microbial qPCR applications.