Food and Beverage Analysis

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A careful approach to data handling is important for the understanding of how certain procedures alter the metabolic profile of samples.

PSS Polymer Standards Service GmbH

Shimadzu Europa GmbH

A novel, simple, rapid and effective method to determine pesticide residues in red wine samples is described.

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The Column spoke to Janie Dubois, Laboratory Programme Manager at the International Food Safety Training Laboratory (IFSTL), about the training programme to boost the standard of food analysis to comply with internationally recognized food safety standards and US regulations.

Pickering Laboratories Inc.

A novel, simple, rapid and effective method to determine pesticide residues in red wine samples is descibed.

A new strain of the enzyme ?-glucosidase isolated from the microbial strain Aureobasidium pullulans (Sp? ?-gl) improves the aroma of wine, according to a team of Brazilian researchers.1 Published in Appl. Biochem Biotechnol., the study indicated that the Sp? ?-gl strain functioned over a wide range of pH levels, had two peaks of optimum temperature and was tolerant to ethanol.

The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) and Waters (Milford, Massachusetts, USA) have officially opened the first food safety training facility (York, UK), the first of its kind in Europe.

Malvidin, a polyphenol found in red wine, has been presented as a potential candidate for the reduction of heart disease.

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has added nearly 800 new records, mostly from 2011 and 2012, to its Food Fraud Database, increasing the size of the database by 60%. The original database contained 1,300 records, covering fraud reports issued between 1980 and 2010. The database compiles data taken from publicly available reports in both scholarly journals and general media, with key findings published in the Journal of Food Science.

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Food and beverage analysis is a major concern in analytical chemistry. LCGC invited three experts from industry: Deepali Mohindra from Thermo Scientific, Paul Zavitsanos from Agilent and Norbert Helle, TeLA GmbH, to participate in this forum to discuss the hottest issues in this area of research.

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Food and beverage analysis is a major concern in analytical chemistry. LCGC invited three experts from industry: Deepali Mohindra from Thermo Scientific, Paul Zavitsanos from Agilent and Norbert Helle, TeLA GmbH, to participate in this forum to discuss the hottest issues in this area of research.

Sample preparation in this study involved QuEChERS extraction followed by a filter-based cleanup method that is easier and faster than dispersive solid-phase extraction.

This article describes how a food testing laboratory can transition routine high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods to microflow LC for improved sensitivity, throughput, and robustness of analysis.

UCT

One fast, simple QuEChERS extraction for a broad range of pesticides.

LCGC

Levels of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, and styrene (BTEXS) are a concern in olive oil. These compounds find their way into olive trees and hence into olives and olive oil mainly as a result of emissions from vehicles, bonfires, and paints into ambient air near orchards. This analysis uses a PerkinElmer? TurboMatrix? 110 Headspace (HS) sampler with a Clarus? SQ 8 gas chromatograph–mass spectrometer (GC–MS) to achieve detection limits below 5 ng/g and concentrations up to 100 ng/g.

A sensitive and selective liquid chromatography spectrometry mass spectrometry (LC–MS–MS) method to determine clenbuterol-like beta agonist residues in human hair was developed and validated.

Phenomenex Application Note

UCT Application Note

PSS Application Note

Perkin EU - VOCs in Beer Production by Headspace Trap-GC–MS

Monday afternoon’s “Food and Environment†session will take place in Grand Ballroom F-K, starting at 4:30 p.m. The Session Chairs will be Andy Dang of San Jose University (San Jose, California), and Frantisek Svec of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California).