Flavour and aroma are central to how we experience food and drink. This collection of application notes and white papers highlights practical techniques for sampling and analysing the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that give rise to these sensory experiences. The examples cover a range of real-world challenges, from characterising delicate cheese aromas and regional tea varieties to comparing soft drinks and detecting trace contaminants. Together, they show how advances in automation and cryogen-free sample concentration can improve accuracy, speed and confidence in flavour and aroma testing—while enhanced separation with GC×GC–TOF MS, combined with advanced data-mining software, provides deeper insights into even the most complex samples.
What you will learn:
- How to use advanced sample preparation techniques—including SPME, high-capacity sorptive extraction, and headspace–trap—to analyse volatile and semi-volatile compounds in food and drink.
- Why cryogen-free sample concentration improves sensitivity, reproducibility, and throughput in GC–MS workflows.
- How multi-step enrichment (MSE®) enhances the extraction of trace-level aroma compounds without compromising sample integrity.
- Where GC×GC–TOF MS offers deeper insights than traditional GC–MS, especially for complex samples like tea, soft drinks, and fermented products.
- How multivariate data analysis can uncover key aroma differences between product types, batches or brands.
- Which methods best preserve delicate or thermally labile flavour compounds—essential for true-to-product analysis.
- Practical examples of method automation to streamline routine testing, reduce solvent use and support high-throughput laboratories.
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On-Demand Presentation
Expanding the Sample Extraction Toolkit for Food Analysis by GC-MS
Food scientists face growing challenges in characterizing complex food matrices with conventional analytical methods, which often fall short in sensitivity, robustness, and dynamic range. This presentation describes how to overcome those challenges using a versatile platform. 
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