Reliable food adulterant testing techniques help detect adulterated and contaminated food before it hits the shelves to reach consumers, and mass spectrometers enable such analysis.
Food adulteration can be classified into — incidental adulteration, caused by negligence or intentional adulteration, which deliberate debasing of food quality thru ingredient admixture, substitution or even removal. From infant milk laced with melamine to selling horsemeat patties as beef, food adulteration is common, yet, there still is a gap between production, consumption and regulatory surveillance to keep food fraudsters in-check. So how can we be sure that what we're eating is the real thing?
LC-MS/MS: A Fast and Sensitive Approach
With the fast-growing numbers of food items to analyze and to have to maintain the fast turnaround times, to minimize the cost impact to manufacturers, routine food testing labs require increase throughput of the analysis.
SCIEX LC-MS/MS solutions can help your lab:
- Reduce sample preparation and run time
- Screen for more contaminants in each analysis, without compromising data quality for higher throughput
- Quantitative and qualitative sensitivity to detect low concentration analytes in challenging matrices
- Simultaneously quantitate with multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) and collect high-speed full-scan
Rapid Identification of Compounds
Analyze large batches of MS/MS data using our comprehensive verified spectral libraries for accurate compound detection and identification to get a head start to screen and process as well as create methods for your targeted and non-targeted data on your samples.
Highly Selective Multi-Compound Analysis
Screen and identify multi-contaminants even a trace level in food commodities. Take advantage of polarity switching, Scheduled MRM™ algorithm, and multiplexing functionality to maximize results within a single analysis with SCIEX LC-MS/MS technology.
Greater Sensitivity, Speed and Reliability
LC-MS/MS solutions offer lower detection limits as you easily confirm contaminants within your sample. You can also significantly reduce your sample prep time as well as avoid the time-consuming derivatization step to quickly get to the real work of analyzing your sample, all while eliminating false positives.
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| A New, Fast and Sensitive LC-MS /MS Method for the Accurate Quantitation and Identification of Melamine and Cyanuric Acid in Pet Food Samples | Download |
| Multiplexing Two Different Food Residue Methods Using HILIC and Reversed Phase Chromatography in the Same LC-MS/MS Run | Download |
| LC-MS/MS Analysis of Emerging Food Contaminants | Download |