Food Analysis
Separation Science Food offers free learning from the experts covering methods, applications, eBooks, webinars, eSeminars, expert forums, videos, tutorials and training for food analysis users of chromatography, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, sample preparation and related analytical techniques.
Featured Educational Resources
Advantages of Laminar-Flow Mass Spectrometry for a Sensitive and Robust Determination of Mycotoxins in Food
On-demand
Francisco Ferron (Senior Product Specialist for LC-MS, PerkinElmer)
The presentation introduces you to the most advanced methods for food contaminants determination. In particular, performances of the LC-MS/MS technology and Laminar-Flow Mass Spectrometry applied to food analysis and strategies for method optimization are covered.
New Methodology for the Analysis of Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables by GC-HRMS
On-demand
Ramkumar Dhandapani (Phenomenex) and Javier Arrebola (University of Almería)
Discover some invaluable method optimization tips and tricks for pesticide analysis of real sample matrices, including fruits and vegetables, by gas chromatography/high-resolution mass spectrometry (GC-HRMS). Learn how the use of HRMS is increasingly being incorporated to routine work-flow laboratories because of its power to discriminate analytical information and capability to avoid matrix interferences and how it also helps to evaluate the performance of the tested GC column.
Knowing How to Make ICP-MS Easier
On-demand
Gareth Pearson (Agilent, Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Centre, Melbourne, Australia), Glenn Woods (Agilent, Centre of Excellence, Manchester, UK), and James Dellis (Agilent, Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Centre, Melbourne, Australia)
Learn how Easy-fit supplies can simplify your workflow, discover tools that can help you get your ICP-MS configured right for your analysis, take a look at ICP-MS MassHunter software, and learn about some of the simple software tools and time-saving tips that can help you get the very best out of your ICP-MS.
Electron Activated Dissociation (EAD) MS/MS for the Structural Elucidation of Lipids
On-demand
Sophia Laposchan (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
By viewing this presentation you will gain a basic understanding of using electron activated dissociation in MS/MS analysis for structural elucidation of lipids; and learn how EAD can distinguish structural isomers of various lipid classes and how this powerful technique adds value over other fragmentation techniques.
Ask the Experts: Which Trace Elemental Instruments are Best for your Analysis?
On-demand webinar
Daniel Kutscher
This is the second on-demand instalment of the 'Instrument Selection Discussion Series' where laboratory professionals gain knowledge on the choices of instruments available and which is most recommended for specific applications.
Food Contact Materials: Role of Food & Beverage Manufacturers in Ensuring Food Safety Compliance
On-demand webinar
Dr Dnyanesh Darshane (FOBE Solutions LLC) and Dr Matthias Nold (Merck KGaA)
This webinar provides valuable insights into the risks of food contact materials and how to ensure food safety compliance.
Analysis Methods for Residual Pesticides in Food
Application Notes
Shimadzu
Separation Science, in collaboration with Shimadzu, offers a series of application notes demonstrating how the use of LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS, often with a modified QuEChERS method, can be used to rapidly quantify residual pesticides in food and beverage samples. This includes a Method for the Determination of 346 Residual Pesticides in Milk, Multiresidue Pesticides Analysis in Curcumin Color Additive Powder, Analysis of Residual Pesticides in Carrot-oleoresin and a Method for the Determination of 313 Residual Pesticides in Black Tea.
Expert Discussion Forum: Mass Spectrometry to Fight Food Fraud
On-demand webinar
Prof. Chris Elliott, PhD, FRSC, FRSB, MRIA, OBE (Queen’s University Belfast)
Register for this discussion forum and hear our expert panel - Prof. Chris Elliott, PhD, FRSC, FRSB, MRIA, OBE (Queen’s University Belfast), Prof. Chiara Cordero (University of Turin, Italy) and Dr Stéphane Bayen (McGill University, Canada) - provide insights into what analytical techniques are useful in detecting food fraud or confirming authenticity, why MS is such a promising tool, and what some of the challenges are with MS that prevent its widespread and routine use for food authenticity currently.
Access the free Food Safety Solutions Learning Hub
Learning Hub
LECO
LECO offers this free, learning hub covering methods and applications focusing on technologies to enhance your food analyses and increase data quality and sample throughput. Here you'll find webinars, an online workshop, application notes, an eBook and other educational resources to cover all of your food analysis needs.
Dilution and Sensitivity: Effects on a Food Contaminant Mega-Method
On-demand webinar
Dr Robert Di Lorenzo (Staff Scientist - Global Technical Marketing, Food & Beverage, SCIEX)
This presentation will explore how far we can push dilution while still meeting sensitivity requirements to simplify sample preparation and analysis workflows. A single LC-MS/MS mega-method comprising hundreds of pesticides, veterinary drugs and mycotoxins will be analyzed from various food and feed matrices from a single sample preparation method.
Fatty Acid Esters in Infant Formula - Determination of 2-MCPD and 3-MCPD
On-demand webinar
Youjuan Zhang (Applications Chemist, Gas Phase Separation Division, Agilent)
This presentation delivers a reliable analytical method for determining the fatty acid esters of 2-MCPD and 3-MCPD in infant formula using an Agilent 8890 GC System with an Agilent 5977B GC/MSD. The method described explains how two different derivatization reagents, heptafluorobutyrylimidazole (HFBI) and phenylboronic acid (PBA), were evaluated for sample preparation.
Sample Clean-up for Methods for Pesticides in Fatty Matrices
On-demand webinar
Deyny Mendivelso-Pérez (Senior R&D Scientist in the life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)
This on-demand webinar describes an alternative approach to the clean-up of matrices with significant fat content using a family of sorbents that effectively retain fatty components. Examples include analysis of pesticides using QuEChERS methodology and the use of unique solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridges for analysis of PCBs and PAHs in fatty foods.
Sample Preparation and Chromatographic Approaches to Quality and Sensory Testing of Beer
On-demand webinar
Dr.-Ing. Nils Rettberg (VLB, Germany) & Klaus Buckendahl (Merck KGaA, Germany)
In this on-demand webinar you'll hear two presentations, on 'Sample Preparation Tools for Chromatographic Testing of Beer' and 'Flavor Chemistry and Sensory Properties of Non-alcoholic Beer'.
Sample Preparation for Fatty and Complex Food Matrices
On-demand webinar
Klaus Buckendahl (Merck KGaA, Germany)
In this presentation, sample preparation tools based on zirconia-silica adsorbents for the QuEChERS methodology as well as in the form of solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridges will be introduced. Their applicability and improved fat and pigment removal will be demonstrated for pesticide analysis in samples like avocado and spices, as well as for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in edible oils.
Trace Metals Analysis in Dietary Supplements Using ICP-MS
On-demand webinar
Grant Fulford (Eurofins Food Integrity and Innovation)
This presentation covers ICP-MS analysis of dietary supplements for trace metals and minimizing contamination to meet regulatory compliance. The topics presented include an overview of the technique of ICP-MS, the limitations and interferences of ICP-MS, sample preparation, laboratory hygiene, and the regulations for food and supplement analysis.
An Industry Perspective on the Prevention of Food Fraud by Nestlé
On-demand webinar
Luis Hernandez (Senior Quality Manager, Nestlé) and Geoffrey Cottenet (Senior Scientist, Nestlé)
Learn how Nestlé has collaborated with Thermo Fisher Scientific and SGS Molecular to develop an untargetted species identification workflow based on Next Generation Sequencing, which is applicable to meat, fish and plant.
Extractables and Leachables in Food Contact Material
On-demand webinar
KC Hyland (Global Technical Marketing, Food & Enviro. Applications, SCIEX)
"Extractables and leachables" is a common label for contaminants originating from food or medical packaging. Understanding the risks these contaminants may pose relies on the ability to detect and quantify them. A prerequisite however, is the need to characterize the relevant chemicals.
Connecting Performance Improvement to Increased Production in GC/MS Analytical Workflows
On-demand webinar
Angie Smith-Henry (Applications Chemist, Agilent) and Gustavo Serrano (GC Columns Product Manager, Agilent)
This on-demand webinar will go over some of the Ultra Inert GC columns, liners and supplies, including gold-seals and novel gold-coated ferrules that are critical to achieve optimal performance even for low-trace level analysis and deliver consistently reliable results.
Advances in Food Analysis
eBook
Restek
This eBook outlines methods to help you achieve faster analysis times and increase sample throughput in your food analyses. Learn about new methods for multi-residue pesticide testing, mycotoxins analysis, fatty acid and edible oil determination, and acrylamide challenges.
Which Dioxin and POPs applications can the DFS Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS be used for?
QA SmartNotes
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Dioxins and other persistent organic pollutants are everywhere. Labs need to analyse samples to quantify them and guarantee their results are compliant with regulations and controls.
Food Authenticity and the AOAC International Standards and Methods Program
On-demand webinar
AOAC International
AOAC International, together with Separation Science, offers an on-demand eSeminar focusing on its standards and methods program created to identify analytical tools to better locate and characterize adulteration of foods. Food authenticity, EMA, and the analytical challenges facing the industry, regulators, and consumers. This eSemianr includes a series of presentations from key experts in the field, including Bert Pöpping (FOCOS, Germany), Joe Boison (AOAC International), John Szpylka (AOAC International) and Palmer Orlandi (AOAC International).
Latest Mass Spectrometry-based Trends for Identifying and Quantifying Unknown PFAS Compounds
On-demand webinar
Lee Ferguson (Duke University, North Carolina, USA) and Abigail Joyce (Duke University, North Carolina, USA)
In this presentation, leaders of the Ferguson Laboratory discuss a Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ Mass Spectrometer-based method, which captures more meaningful data to demystify unknown PFAS compounds.
Determination of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins and Tetrodotoxin in Shellfish using HILIC/MS/MS
On-demand webinar
Andrew D. Turner (Principal Chemist, Food Safety Group, Cefas Weymouth Laboratory, UK)
This presentation discusses the development of a combined method to ensure the high quality of shellfish, intended for human consumption, using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (HILIC/MS/MS) and MassHunter software.
Solving the Challenges of High-throughput Multi-residue Pesticide Screening
On-demand webinar
Katie Banaszewski (NOW Foods)
The presentation describes two analytical platforms, GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS, utilized in the development of a high throughput workflow to screen a total of 500 pesticide residues in botanical matrices.
Automated Aroma Profiling of Wine using Sorptive Extraction with GC×GC–TOF MS/SCD
Application Notes
SepSolve Analytical
This study demonstrates the use of headspace sorptive extraction coupled with GC×GC–TOF MS/SCD to provide comprehensive information on wine aroma and odour taints on a single, fully automated, cryogen-free platform. We also show the added value of Tandem Ionisation® for confident identification of aroma-active species that can be challenging to identify by conventional 70 eV electron ionisation alone. Aroma profiles, such as those for wine, contain a wide variety of components at a range of concentrations. Detection and identification of key compounds with low odour thresholds and compounds responsible for off-odours is a challenging prospect.
Mass Spectrometry in Authenticity Testing and Allergen Detection: Novel Approaches from Food Proteomics
On-demand webinar
Prof. Jens Brockmeyer (Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University Stuttgart)
Learn more about food proteomics and how analytical approaches based on this discipline can help with allergen detection. Professor Jens Brockmeyer provides an interesting overview.
Ultra Fast Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Chemical Hazards in Food & Beverages
On-demand webinar
Dr Peter Varelis, Applications Manager, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Oceania)
The importance of these state-of-the-art instruments to the analysis of chemical hazards in food will be discussed in the context of the regulatory requirements for the analysis of contaminants in foods and a general overview of chemical hazards in foods.
Developments in Mycotoxins Analysis
On-demand webinar
Prof. Chiara Dall'Asta (University of Parma and European Food Safety Authority)
This on-demand presentation will cover the use mass spectrometry for mycotoxin analysis, from multi-toxin methods to the most advanced methodologies. Challenges such as mycotoxin chemical diversity, the large number of isomeric forms, and the lack of analytical standards, will be addressed.
Expanding Capabilities in Multi-Residue Pesticide Analysis
Application Note
Shimadzu
This application note describes the expanded capability of Shimadzu's LCMS-8060 to help accelerate method development workflows and support increased pesticide monitoring programs.
Determination of Pesticides in Tomato Products by GCxGC-TOFMS
Application Note
LECO
Find out how the use of Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (GC×GC) with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOF-MS) demonstrates excellent matrix-analyte and analyte-analyte separation quality of a high number of target pesticides, at high sensitivity.
Food and Beverage Testing Applications
Application Notes
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Separation Science, in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific, offers a selection of application notes relevant for food and beverage testing. Learn more about pesticide residues screening, analysis of mycotoxins, multiclass veterinary drug screening and improved contaminant monitoring strategies.
New Analytical Strategies for the Determination of Food Quality and Safety by Automated Sample Preparation Coupled with 1D and 2D GC–MS
On-demand webinar
Giorgia Purcaro (University of Liége, Belgium), Chiara Cordero (University of Turin, Italy) and Taylor Hayward (Apeel Sciences, Goleta, California, USA)
This presentation describes a method that enhances the performance of headspace-SPME using a novel approach based on multi-cumulative trapping solid-phase microextraction (SPME). The SPME extraction was performed using an automated multi-mode sample preparation system (Centri™) containing a sorbent based focusing trap to retain and preconcentrate analytes. The novel technique was applied to the analysis of the olive oil aroma profile using a pattern recognition approach.