Food and Beverage Analysis

Food provides the body with energy and good food is indispensable for a healthy life.

This article is focused on the detailed qualitative analysis of the fatty acids and the unsaponifiable constituents of a vegetable oil derived from a food-industry waste product, namely lemon seeds.

If food flavor is not as expected, it can damage consumer confidence and give the perception of poor quality. Setting analytical standards of what constitutes an acceptable flavor can be challenging, and while methods based on total volatiles or specific marker compounds can be a useful quality control check, a more investigative approach is often required.

Advances in nano-ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (nUHPLC) and "plug-and-play" micro-UHPLC (?UHPLC) for the detection of veterinary drugs and steroids in porcine meat and urine respectively are described.

Edible oils and fats are complex mixtures of compounds. To understand the properties of an oil or fat, information on groups of molecules, as well as individual molecules, is needed.

Dr Sastia Prama Putri of Osaka University, Japan, spoke to Kate Mosford of The Column about advances in metabolomics, the need for authentication of high value food products, and the important role of GC–MS in food analysis.

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The 2015 budget for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will rise by 8.1% over the 2014 budget.

A look at the various strategies and tools related to metabolomics applied to food and nutrition

The potential to accurately and rapidly measure hundreds of individual molecular species provides novel opportunities for food science and nutrition. For food and nutrition researchers, metabolomics, the screening of small-molecule metabolites, enables the molecular fingerprinting of food components. This article describes the various applications, strategies, and tools related to metabolomics in food analysis.

This article details how a newly developed ?dilute-and-shoot? sample preparation methodology for LC–MS–MS multi-residue monitoring (MRM) pesticide screening can enable operators to overcome the matrix effects that have traditionally hindered routine food analysis.

Kate Mosford of The Column about the importance of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) in food analysis.

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Here, a method to characterize edible oils and edible oil mixtures through fingerprinting and the isolation of individual analyte differences is reported. Aroma and flavor analytes in extra virgin olive, olive, peanut, grapeseed, and vegetable oils were sampled with headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME).

This Wednesday morning session will be presided over by Joe Romano of Waters Corporation.

This Tuesday afternoon session was arranged by Perry G. Wang of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) and Mark F. Vitha of Drake University.

The 6th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2013) kept attendees up to speed on the latest trends in food analysis.

Fusel alcohols, a common byproduct of fermentation, in abnormal quantities or types can indicate alcoholic beverage adulteration.

The analysis of pesticide residues in food samples from the state of Connecticut's regulatory monitoring program are compared to USDA and US FDA results.

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Join this webinar describing a multi-analyte method for target analysis of >380 pesticide residues, mycotoxins and pyrrolizidine alkaloids using a QuEChERS extraction method and UHPLC?HRAM?MS/MS technology.

Dr Sastia Prama Putri of Osaka University, Japan, spoke to LCGC about advances in metabolomics, the need for authentication of high value food products, and the important role of gas chromatography?mass spectrometry in food analysis.

This article considers the use of polysaccharides in food formulation and examines how the data from SEC analysis provides essential supporting information.

To ensure an efficient, reliable, and sensitive determination of all corkiness-related off-flavour compounds in wine samples, the DLR Mosel in Germany has successfully turned to GC–MS combined with stir-bar sorptive extraction.

This article investigates the need for objective beer analysis, detailing how off-flavour GC beer analysis with flame ionization, electron capture, and pulse flame photometric detection provides standardized, easy-to-use, and rapid analysis for global beer quality control.

This article provides examples of the robustness of monolithic HPLC columns and how they can be used to help overcome the inherent challenges presented when analytes are in complex matrices.

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The Column spoke to Ana Maria Garcia Campania about recent food scares and the development of techniques to monitor veterinary drug residues in foods for human consumption.