Food and Beverage Analysis – Products

Waters Corporation has introduced the new Xevo™ TQ Absolute system, the most sensitive and compact benchtop tandem mass spec in its class.

Whether you are an environmental scientist or work to ensure that food meets the legal requirements for the consumer, it is imperative you keep up to speed with current research and thus the techniques and best practices that evolve from this research.

Food authenticity is defined as “the process of irrefutably proving that a food or food ingredient is in its original, genuine, verifiable and intended form as declared and represented” by the International Food Authenticity Assurance Organization (IFAAO).

BioChromato reports that it has installed more than 10 Smart Evaporator systems across the Russian Hygiene and Epidemiology Centers (HEC) network of institutes as part of a national program of acquiring leading edge analytical and sample preparation equipment.

TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K reports how the internationally respected Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki (Finland) is using its BI-200SM light scattering goniometer for physicochemical characterization of polymers.

PerkinElmer, Inc. has launched its IndiScope™ raw milk analysis solution. The solution is designed to help milk collection points perform fast and accurate testing to determine fair market value and help ensure a safe raw milk supply chain for consumers.

Mycotoxins are toxic compounds produced by fungi and are commonly found in corn, wheat and other grains used in animal feed. Testing of animal feed by Veterinary Diagnostic Labs prior to distribution to livestock for consumption is important in managing animal nutrition, preventing toxicosis and preventing financial loss in the animal production industry

Thermo Fisher Scientific and ChromSword have collaborated to launch an automated high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) method development system that enables chromatographers to deliver robust and validated methods in less time and with higher confidence.

Metrohm USA and Metrohm Canada are pleased to announce that they have entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Agilent Technologies to become a value-added reseller for their single- and triple-quadrupole mass spectrometers as well as ICP-MS and ICP-OES products, software and services.

Food fraud is a rapidly growing and evolving business, therefore several analytical methods have recently been developed to address the concern regarding food adulteration.