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The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has added nearly 800 new records, mostly from 2011 and 2012, to its Food Fraud Database, increasing the size of the database by 60%. The original database contained 1,300 records, covering fraud reports issued between 1980 and 2010. The database compiles data taken from publicly available reports in both scholarly journals and general media, with key findings published in the Journal of Food Science (1).

Derivatization of the analytes targeted in an HPLC-ESI-MS separation can help improve detection limits.

Prehistoric cheese

Love it or hate it, cheese is everywhere in western diets, but have you ever wondered when cheese production began?

A team of scientists at the University of Regensburg (Regensburg, Germany) has discovered a microbial defence method used by emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compresa F.) larvae to prevent its food source, the cockroach, from putrefying.1

Man of the Masses

MS: The Practical Art Editor Kate Yu interviews Fred McLafferty about his pioneering career in mass spectrometry

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Polar lipids and other metabolites extracted from plasma from lean, diabetic, and obese Zucker rats were analyzed by flow injection using high resolution time of flight mass spectrometry. Metabolites were confidently identified and differences in the metabolite profiles determined.

The Swiss-based Global Discovery Chemistry platform of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research has an immediate opening for an accomplished PhD-qualified Chemist with significant work experience with a variety of chromatographic methods for the preparative separation, isolation, and purification of chemical substances.

Man of the Masses

An interview with Fred McLafferty, professor emeritus at Cornell University, about his pioneering career in mass spectrometry