Food and Beverage Analysis

Kate Mosford of The Column about the importance of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) in food analysis.

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Here, a method to characterize edible oils and edible oil mixtures through fingerprinting and the isolation of individual analyte differences is reported. Aroma and flavor analytes in extra virgin olive, olive, peanut, grapeseed, and vegetable oils were sampled with headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME).

This Wednesday morning session will be presided over by Joe Romano of Waters Corporation.

This Tuesday afternoon session was arranged by Perry G. Wang of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) and Mark F. Vitha of Drake University.

The 6th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2013) kept attendees up to speed on the latest trends in food analysis.

Fusel alcohols, a common byproduct of fermentation, in abnormal quantities or types can indicate alcoholic beverage adulteration.

The analysis of pesticide residues in food samples from the state of Connecticut's regulatory monitoring program are compared to USDA and US FDA results.

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Join this webinar describing a multi-analyte method for target analysis of >380 pesticide residues, mycotoxins and pyrrolizidine alkaloids using a QuEChERS extraction method and UHPLC?HRAM?MS/MS technology.

Dr Sastia Prama Putri of Osaka University, Japan, spoke to LCGC about advances in metabolomics, the need for authentication of high value food products, and the important role of gas chromatography?mass spectrometry in food analysis.

This article considers the use of polysaccharides in food formulation and examines how the data from SEC analysis provides essential supporting information.

To ensure an efficient, reliable, and sensitive determination of all corkiness-related off-flavour compounds in wine samples, the DLR Mosel in Germany has successfully turned to GC–MS combined with stir-bar sorptive extraction.

This article investigates the need for objective beer analysis, detailing how off-flavour GC beer analysis with flame ionization, electron capture, and pulse flame photometric detection provides standardized, easy-to-use, and rapid analysis for global beer quality control.

This article provides examples of the robustness of monolithic HPLC columns and how they can be used to help overcome the inherent challenges presented when analytes are in complex matrices.

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The Column spoke to Ana Maria Garcia Campania about recent food scares and the development of techniques to monitor veterinary drug residues in foods for human consumption.

Diesel exhaust fumes can rapidly degrade the floral odours used by honeybees (Apis melifera) to identify flowering plants, according to results published by scientists at the University of Southampton (Southampton, UK) in the journal Scientific Reports.1

An interview with Hans-Gerd Janssen of Unilever Research and Development Vlaardingen and the University of Amsterdam. Janssen is involved with method development for gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry; the development of instrumentation for multidimensional chromatography for food analysis and biomacromolecular characterization; and problem solving and efficient routine analysis of foods (particularly oils and fats). This interview discusses the challenges encountered in the analysis of fats and oils, how multidimensional chromatography can be applied to the analysis, 2D LC for food-related compound analysis, the analysis of natural antioxidants in edible oils, and future steps in his research.

Is "green foodomics" another buzzword or a new direction in food analysis?

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