Microbiology

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.

Enumeration Method for Campylobacter
10 Feb 2020
The SVA has created a PDF outlining a preferred method for the enumeration of campylobacter.
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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.

Latest Mass Spectrometry-based Trends for Identifying and Quantifying Unknown PFAS Compounds
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.

Mass Spectrometry in Authenticity Testing and Allergen Detection: Novel Approaches from Food Proteomics
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.

Safety of lacto‐N‐tetraose (LNT) as a novel food
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.

Solving the Challenges of High-throughput Multi-residue Pesticide Screening
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.