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|WEBINAR: Food Authenticity and the AOAC International Standards and Methods Program
07 May 2020
AOAC International, together with Food Analysis, offers an eSeminar that focuses on its standards and methods program created to identify analytical tools to better locate and characterize adulteration of foods.
|WEBINAR: An Industry Perspective on the Prevention of Food Fraud
07 May 2020
Learn how Nestlé has collaborated with Thermo Fisher Scientific and SGS Molecular to develop an untargetted species identification workflow based on Next Generation Sequencing, which is applicable to meat, fish and plant.
|Determination of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins and Tetrodotoxin in Shellfish using HILIC/MS/MS
This presentation discusses the development of a combined method to ensure the high quality of shellfish, intended for human consumption, using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (HILIC/MS/MS) and MassHunter software.
|Iron, Copper and Zinc Determination in Wine
This application note describes the analysis of heavy metals in wine by Flame AAS following a simple dilution of the sample.
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|WEBINAR: Food Authenticity and the AOAC International Standards and Methods Program
07 May 2020
AOAC International, together with Food Analysis, offers an eSeminar that focuses on its standards and methods program created to identify analytical tools to better locate and characterize adulteration of foods.
|Latest Mass Spectrometry-based Trends for Identifying and Quantifying Unknown PFAS Compounds
10 Feb 2020
In this presentation, leaders of the Ferguson Laboratory discuss a Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ Mass Spectrometer-based method, which captures more meaningful data to demystify unknown PFAS compounds.
|Determination of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins and Tetrodotoxin in Shellfish using HILIC/MS/MS
10 Feb 2020
This presentation discusses the development of a combined method to ensure the high quality of shellfish, intended for human consumption, using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (HILIC/MS/MS) and MassHunter software.
|Solving the Challenges of High-throughput Multi-residue Pesticide Screening
10 Feb 2020
The presentation describes two analytical platforms, GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS, utilized in the development of a high throughput workflow to screen a total of 500 pesticide residues in botanical matrices.
|Automated Aroma Profiling of Wine using Sorptive Extraction with GC×GC–TOF MS/SCD
10 Feb 2020
In this study we demonstrate the implementation of this approach on a multi-functional, cryogen-free platform, for definitive yet affordable aroma profiling of a range of red wines.
|EFSA updates risk assessment of phthalate food contact materials
10 Feb 2020
The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP Panel) has updated its 2005 risk assessments of di-butylphthalate (DBP), butyl-benzyl-phthalate (BBP), bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), di-isononylphthalate (DINP) and di-isodecylphthalate (DIDP), which are authorised for use in plastic food contact material (FCM).
|Safety of lacto-N-tetraose (LNT) as a novel food
10 Feb 2020
The EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA) was asked by the European Commission to deliver an opinion on lacto-N-tetraose (LNT) as a novel food (NF) pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.
|Smartphone-based lateral flow imaging for detection E.coli
10 Feb 2020
Digital smartphone technology is finding application in many areas of analytical science, and food safety is no exception. Find out how a a research group from Purdue University are using smartphones for bacteria detection.
|Mass Spectrometry in Authenticity Testing and Allergen Detection: Novel Approaches from Food Proteomics
10 Feb 2020
Learn more about food proteomics and how analytical approaches based on this discipline can help with allergen detection. Professor Jens Brockmeyer provides an interesting overview.
|Enumeration Method for Campylobacter
10 Feb 2020
The SVA has created a PDF outlining a preferred method for the enumeration of campylobacter.
|Iron, Copper and Zinc Determination in Wine
10 Feb 2020
This application note describes the analysis of heavy metals in wine by Flame AAS following a simple dilution of the sample.
|Ultra Fast Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Chemical Hazards in Food & Beverages
10 Feb 2020
The importance of these state-of-the-art instruments to the analysis of chemical hazards in food will be discussed in the context of the regulatory requirements for the analysis of contaminants in foods and a general overview of chemical hazards in foods.
|Developments in Mycotoxins Analysis
10 Feb 2020
This on-demand presentation will cover the use mass spectrometry for mycotoxin analysis, from multi-toxin methods to the most advanced methodologies. Challenges such as mycotoxin chemical diversity, the large number of isomeric forms, and the lack of analytical standards, will be addressed.
