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CEPHT fight for food

The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University?s Centre for Excellence in Post Harvest Technologies (CEPHT) is on a mission to defeat pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses and treat outbreaks more effectively.

Waters has announced, alongside Mars Incorporated and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), that they have jointly pledged $1 million to create the first ever global food safety capacity building fund.

Researchers from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Delhi, India, have been awarded a grant of $950,000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Grand Challenges Canada for their research into an electronic nose that can detect and diagnose TB.

A new ALEXYS Analyzer has been developed for a number of well-known neurotransmitters and metabolites which uses a UHPLC system with sub-2 μm packed columns to optimize plate numbers, retention times and detection sensitivity.

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3-MCPD ester analysis is a much faster and more economical method when using the LECO's Pegasus 4D GCxGC-TOFMS and ChromaTOF single software platform. The result is a sensitive method and a clear reduction of cost-per-analysis.

HTC-12 and HTSP-2

The 12th International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analyzers (HTC-12) will take place at the Old Saint John Conference Centre in Bruges, Belgium, from the 1?3 February 2012.

The use of flow splitters between the two dimensions in on-line comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography (LC×LC) has received little attention in comparison to their use in two dimensional gas chromatography.