Ensuring Food Quality, Safety & Authenticity

Welcome to our dedicated feature page Ensuring Food Quality, Safety and Authenticity. Providing a comprehensive collection of materials tailored to support your laboratory efforts in maintaining exceptional quality control and ensuring compliance with food safety regulations.

Read on to explore detection techniques for measuring PFAS contaminants, top tips on selecting grinding tools for sample preparation, an overview of the Dumas method for protein content determination as part of nutritional analysis, and much more. Whether you are seeking reliable testing tools, industry insights, or practical advice, this page aims to equip you with up-to-date information to find solutions and elevate your practices.

Measuring PFAS exposure to maintain safe food

Learn how Agilent is working to automate sample preparation for as many typical food types as is practicable. Focusing on the development of intelligent tools to improve data interrogation and reporting to guarantee food safety and limit PFAS contamination.

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Analysis of PFAS in milk by LC-MS/MS

Discover how to implement extensive, robust and accurate testing of 28 PFAS in dairy milk using LC-MS/MS, detecting levels as low as 0.01 µg/kg. With a fast, simple sample preparation using QuEChERS extraction and dSPE cleanup, this workflow is ideal for high-throughput PFAS testing labs.

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Sample preparation for reliable food analysis

Explore best practices for food sample preparation with Retsch’s solutions. Use this resource as a guide in the selection process of mills to ensure your diverse sample requirements for food testing is representative, homogenized, and pulverized for accurate analysis whilst maintaining sample integrity.

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Determination of nitrogen/protein content with the Dumas method

Discover the key advantages of the Dumas method, including faster processing times, greater automation, and improved safety in determining protein content in food. Utilizing the Elementrac CN-r analyzer, read on to uncover real-world applications in a case study showcasing the accuracy and efficiency in protein detection in milk powder.

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Addressing the rise of Listeriosis in the UK

The UK has witnessed a concerning surge in Listeria monocytogenes outbreaks in recent years, presenting significant public health challenges. To ensure food safety explore the Stomacher, widely used in microbiological testing that can enhance PCR and culture-based techniques to identify contaminated sources and respond effectively to outbreaks.

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