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Food Analysis In-Depth Focus 2017

17 February 2017 | By

Loop-mediated isothermal nucleic acid amplification (LAMP) for food microbiology testing; Best practice for crystallisation kinetics measurements via NMR; and MyToolBox – the smart way to tackle mycotoxins...

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Video: Applications in Focus – Food Integrity

25 February 2016 | By Ocean Optics

Ocean Optics discuss applications of miniature, modular reflectance spectroscopy for Food Integrity using a dual channel Vis-NIR system including the new ultra-compact Flame-NIR spectrometer...

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Food adulteration detection and measurement with NIR hyperspectral imaging

22 February 2016 | By Marena Manley, Professor, Stellenbosch University / Federico Marini, University Researcher, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’

Food adulteration, e.g. adulteration of spices, can be incidental or intentional. Incidental adulteration occurs when foreign substances are added to a food due to ignorance, negligence or using inadequate facilities. Intentional adulteration, also referred to as economic adulteration, entails the deliberate addition of inferior materials to a food to improve…

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PTR-MS applications in food

9 December 2015 | By Alex Webbe, Laboratory Manager, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) / Donna Byrom, Technical Specialist, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL)

One of the more interesting developments in recent years has been the introduction of Proton Transfer Reaction-Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS), a variant not on the way that ionised particles are detected, but on the way they are produced. The PTR technique is more ‘gentle’ in the way it applies a charge…