Check out the August/September 2013 edition of Food Safety Magazine, featuring ion chromatography, focused resources for persistent organic pollutants, the expanding umbrella of food defense, leafy green processing and much more!
In this issue of Food Safety Insider, we describe the variety of resources that Thermo Fisher Scientific™ offers to those who are tasked with keeping food safe.
Using a LIMS, management of information and data becomes straightforward and automatic; secure and reliable; and defensible for audit trails and regulatory compliance. A LIMS gives lab managers and scientists the ability to control the lab environment, to improve efficiencies and to reduce costs while making critical information available as soon as it is generated.
Several years ago, a company acquisition suddenly gave our microbiology group access to a real-time PCR instrument, high quality molecular reagents and enzymes and a team of scientists experienced in PCR assay development.
The Irish Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is charged with tracking animals for food consumption from birth on the farm through to supermarket distribution.The laboratories that support the Department are geographically spread throughout the country and, as such, require timely and accurate flow of information and research results across locations.
Thermo Scientific™ Product Assurance Services & Solutions (PASS) provides food producers with a fast, confidential way to thoroughly test and inspect product when physical contamination or nonconformity is suspected.
We understand not just your advanced technology and application requirements, but the challenges you face when financing your critical equipment assets.
Unity Lab Services takes serving science seriously. We offer a range of capabilities, from traditional laboratory instrument and equipment services to enterprise-level support, including business analytics for continuous improvement and management of laboratory staffing and consumables inventory.
Keep up with the latest in food analysis through our free online Food and Beverage Knowledge Library, a continually expanding collection of resources including application notes, analytical methods, posters, videos, educational webinars, case studies and podcasts.
The United Nations estimates that more than 870 million people in the world today are undernourished; people who are not getting enough food or not getting the right nutrients in the food they eat. This takes an incredible toll physically, mentally and economically.
Ion Chromatography (IC) has been used successfully for more than 30 years to separate, isolate and identify the components of chemical mixtures, including complex food matrices. Today, some of the most exciting uses of IC involve its coupling with detection techniques such as mass spectrometry (MS) and inductively coupled plasma MS (ICP-MS).
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are chemical substances that are of worldwide concern. As a result of industrial activity, POPs are widespread in the environment and persist for many years after formation. Exposure to POPs can be harmful to living organisms, including humans, because POPs produce a toxic effect at very low concentrations and bio-accumulate in fatty body tissues for long periods.
Washing cannot always make leafy greens safe, so the concept of homogeneity in all microbial testing is critical for the ability of samples to represent the lot.
Since its establishment in April 2000, the UK Food Standards Agency has managed more than 12,000 food safety incidents of varying scale and complexity.
“Comfortable and confident” is how Jim Chang, Ph.D., wants his customers to feel when working with him to implement methods on high-resolution mass spectrometers. For the past 10 years, Dr. Chang has worked for Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Senior Application Specialist whose focus is to support government agencies involved in food safety.
Setting up a triple-stage quadrupole GC/MS for pesticide analysis can be challenging. Whether you are new to this type of analysis, want to expand your target list or want to combine multiple single quadrupole runs into one MRM analysis, the Thermo Scientific™ TSQ™ 8000 Pesticide Analyzer offers you a complete workflow solution.
Sometimes, innovation in an approach is as important as innovation in a product. When scientists at Thermo Fisher Scientific faced the challenge of analyzing four types of antibiotics from dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS), they realized some creative thinking would be needed.
Thermo Fisher Scientific recently set out to revolutionize mass spectrometry with our newest generation of instruments. To meet the increasing challenges food scientists face, we focused on setting new limits for sensitivity, reliability, usability, scan speed and even scan type.