Food Contamination: Quality & Safety Webinar Series

From farm to factory to fork, food contamination is a worldwide public health problem that results in foodborne diseases causing acute poisoning or long-term disease and kills approximately 420,000 people per year. Food contamination can occur when foreign particles, including microorganisms or chemicals, are present within food, or it can be the result of inaccurate food labeling, insufficient storage, or even the practice of unsuitable cooking temperatures. To sustain life and promote optimum health, it is essential that people have access to high-quality foods, free from contamination – putting the spotlight firmly on how food is prepared, handled, and stored through the manufacturing process.

Research efforts and technological developments have significantly improved the means by which food safety and quality can be maintained. In this series of free expert webinars, find out all you need to know about the latest innovations, tools and techniques advancing the fields of food safety and food quality, including the analysis of non-casein nitrogen (NCN) and non-protein nitrogen (NPN) fractions in milk and the current trends associated with the study of PFASs via LC-MS/MS instrumentation. You will also have the opportunity to join a brewing masterclass and find out how Raman microscopy can be used for the advanced characterization of polymers and food packaging materials. Register now to hear from the food safety, quality and contamination experts in live presentations and Q&As, plus, check out a selection of our on-demand webinars below.

How to determine nitrogen and protein with the Dumas and Kjeldahl methods: The case of nitrogen fractions in milk

Thursday, July 8, at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT

In this masterclass, join specialists from VELP Scientifica to learn about the methods, analytical procedures, and results for nitrogen and protein determination. Key evidence will be revealed by presenting the analysis of non-casein nitrogen (NCN) and non-protein nitrogen (NPN) fractions in milk with the Dumas and Kjeldahl methods.

LC-MS/MS: The key to analyzing PFASs in milk, infant formula, and related food ingredients

Monday, July 12, at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EDT / 8:00 PDT

Join Lukas Vaclavik, Technical Manager of Eurofins Food Integrity & Innovation, to learn more about the current trends associated with the analysis of PFASs, relevant to food, using cutting-edge LC-MS/MS instrumentation. This webinar will reveal how LC-MS/MS instrumentation can be applied for the determination of challenging matrices, such as milk and infant formula. Vaclavik will also present top tips for successfully eliminating PFAS background contamination, along with sample preparation strategies to achieve robust analysis.

Brewing masterclass: Experts share top tips for high-quality beer

Wednesday, July 14, at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST / 08:00 PST

Join a selection of brewing experts with over 20 years of experience as they share their top tips to help brewers and quality control (QC) personnel effectively navigate the brewing process and laboratory testing procedures. This webinar will show how to make the brewing process run more efficiently, and ensure testing procedures are executed with ease.

Raman microscopy: The solution for advanced characterization of packaging and polymers

Thursday, July 15, at 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EDT / 07:00 PDT

Massimiliano Rocchia and Ludivine Fromentoux, HORIBA Scientific, will demonstrate Raman microscopy solutions that enable scientists to obtain full and complete characterization data for all polymer films, from defect analysis to multilayer materials characterization. Focusing on food packaging materials, all analysis processes will be considered, from sample to cross-section and confocal analysis using HORIBA’s LS6 software platform.

Benchtop NMR solutions throughout the food chain

Wednesday, July 21, at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT

Join Alice Scarpellini and Rogier Miltenburg, from Thermo Fisher Scientific, as they reveal more about the analysis of unique automotive, ceramics, steel and plastic samples, including the root cause analysis of failures. This webinar will also introduce the latest Thermo Fisher Scientific technologies that bring speed and simplicity to failure analysis.

Discover more free on-demand food contamination webinars here:

• Impact of Salmonella on the global meat and poultry supply chain: Join Erin Crowley, Chief Scientific Officer at Q Laboratories, Inc., and Martin Wiedmann, Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety at Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as they present an overview of the global impact of Salmonella on the meat and poultry supply chain and look at the validation of qualitative and quantitative methods for microbiology in food. Watch here>>
• ‘Sniffing out quality’: Analyzing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to assess food and beverage quality throughout the supply chain: Learn how the sensitivity of VOC analysis can be improved using SPME–trap, and how it can be applied to analyze food and beverage samples. Dr. Natasha Spadafora explains how common problems associated with sampling foods and beverages, such as wide dynamic ranges of components and removing unwanted components, can be overcome. Watch here>>
• Lab validation and performance requirements for the analysis of PFAS compounds in drinking water: Richard Jack, Senior Director of Vertical Marketing at Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Matthew MacLennan, Senior Scientist and Director of Pacific Rim Laboratories, provide an overview of PFAS analysis using MS/MS for compliance monitoring methods and look at the requirements for the analysis of PFASs in water and soil. Watch here>>
• How to optimize workflows for sample prep and rapid analysis of contaminants in foods by LC-MS/MS: This expert webinar presents insights into recent advances in chromatography technology and how to apply them to food commodity testing workflows to overcome common challenges, simplify sample preparation, speed up analysis and minimize reporting of false negatives and positives in your final results. Watch here>>

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