Laura Righetti explains why quantification, not instrumentation, still keeps mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) out of routine food safety testing.
News|Articles|June 15, 2026
Rethinking Food Testing with Dried Spot Microsampling
Author(s)Maria Halabalaki, Kate Jones
LCGC International spoke to Maria Halabalaki, an associate professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, about how dried spot microsampling could transform food testing.
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Q. How does the automated DBS extraction system work and what are its advantages over manual methods?
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