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Extraction of acrylamide from fried potato chips (crisps) using ISOLUTE® SLE+ prior to LC-MS/MS analysis
Acrylamide has been found to occur in many cooked carbohydrate rich foods and is of concern as a possible carcinogen.
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Preparation of Food and Feed Samples for Metals Analysis
The relative virtues of ICP-MS, ICP-OES and AAS have been frequently discussed, in terms of their use for the analysis of metals, either from a nutritional aspect, but also as control of contamination in food materials.
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Rapid Methods & Mass Spectrometry supplement 2013
Back-tracing environmental toxicants in an animal-derived food chain based on food metabolomics Detecting bacteria in food: harder than searching for a needle in a haystack? Rapid detection methods for chemical hazards in foods Mass spectrometry for the food industry
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In a nutshell: An interview with Rohit Shroff, Application Specialist, Tecan Schweiz AG
2 January 2014 | By Rohit Shroff, Application Specialist, Tecan Schweiz AG
Tecan is a global provider of instruments and solutions for laboratory automation in various markets with a broad portfolio for the food testing industry. Founded in 1980 in Switzerland, Tecan now has over 1,100 employees and owns production, research and development sites in both Europe and North America; maintaining a…
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Whatever it takes for protein analysis: Kjeldahl, Dumas, or NIR
30 September 2013 | By François Bourdichon (Barry Callebaut ), William Ickes, Jürgen Müller & Giovanni Campolongo (BÜCHI)
Whereas Kjeldahl is a proven method for all kind of sample matrices, Dumas excels in unattended processing at high throughput, and NIR is matchless in terms of immediate and comprehensive multi-component analysis. BUCHI introduces you to the Master series, which includes the KjelMaster, DuMaster, and NIRMaster instruments for protein analysis...
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Infrared spectroscopy and its role to monitor wine fermentation
28 August 2013 | By Daniel Cozzolino School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide
The term Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) describes the field of process analysis and measurement technologies that have been expanded to include several physical, chemical, mathematical and other analytical tools used to characterise chemical and biological processes. Over the past few years, on- in- and at-line analysis, the so-called PAT technologies,…
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Coupling NIR spectroscopy and chemometrics for the assessment of food quality
28 February 2013 | By Federico Marini, Department of Chemistry, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
In the last 30 years, there has been increasing attention paid to the possibility of using Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to deal with different aspects of food quality assessment. Indeed, the intrinsic characteristics of this technique, which, requiring little or no sample pretreatment, allows high throughput analyses in a rapid…
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NIRS of chocolate and its chemometric analysis
11 January 2013 | By Jürgen Stohner, Brenno Zucchetti, Fabian Deuber and Fabian Hobi, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, ICBC Institute of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry and Bernhard Lukas and Manfred Suter, Max Felchlin AG
In today’s modern society, chocolate has been established as a premium lifestyle food product. Besides oil and coffee, cocoa is one of the most valuable commodities of global trade. About four per cent of cocoa beans traded on the world market originate from the noble criollo bean and are the…
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Mass Spectrometry supplement 2012
13 December 2012 | By José Bernal del Nozal, Pilar Manzano, Juan Carlos Diego, María Jesús Nozal, Carmen Ferrer, Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba
Studying the influence of the potato variety and frying oil on fatty acid content of commercial potato crisps (José Bernal del Nozal, Pilar Manzano, Juan Carlos Diego and María Jesús Nozal - IU CINQUIMA, Analytical Chemistry Group, University of Valladolid)LC-MS/MS and pesticide residue analysis in food (Carmen Ferrer and Amadeo…
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The detection and screening of mycotoxins by LC-MS/MS
7 August 2012 | By Dr. Stephen Lock, PhD / Dr. Ondrej Lacina, PhD / Dr. Florian Huebner
This on-demand webinar covers the different approaches to the detection of mycotoxin contamination in food by LC-MS/MS.
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Progress on coffee roasting: A process control tool for a consisten roast degree – roast after roast
4 July 2012 | By Chahan Yeretzian, Flurin Wieland & Alexia N. Gloess, Zurich University of Applied Science, Institute of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry and Marco Keller, Andreas Wetzel & Stefan Schenker, Bühler AG
A real-time automated process control tool for coffee roasting was developed to consistently and accurately achieve a targeted roast degree. It is based on timeresolved on-line monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the off-gas of a drum roaster, using Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass-Spectrometry (PTR-TOF-MS). These experiments provide a detailed, real-time…
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Cost optimisation and extremely fast results in the powdered milk production process
The moisture content of materials plays a very significant role both in the pharmaceutical and food industries, because it has a direct influence on product quality and the processing of semi-finished and end products.
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LCMS as a reliable tool for monitoring food allergens contamination
1 May 2012 | By Linda Monaci, National Research Council of Italy (ISPA-CNR)
Food allergen research has considerably expanded its field of interest in recent years probably due to the increasing incidence of food allergies throughout the population. According to the last legislation issued on this issue, there is a current trend to develop reliable methods tailored to the detection of food allergens…
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Research for industrial implementation
6 March 2012 | By Astrid Stevik, Research Scientist, SINTEF
In 2007, the Norwegian Research Council and several other funders enabled the (so far) largest competence building project in Norway within superchilling of fresh food, KMB Competitive Food Processing in Norway. SINTEF Energy Research has conducted the work together with dedicated industrial and research partners, and after five years of…
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On-line NIR for monitoring and control of fat in batches of meat trimmings
5 March 2012 | By Jens Petter Wold, Nofima AS
In the meat industry, the profit margins are small and profitability depends on optimal utilisation of the carcasses. From slaughter to final product, the industry controls much of the production according to certain quality criteria such as muscle quality, fat and connective tissue content. One of the main products from…
