ETHOS UP microwave digestion system is the most powerful microwave digestion system on the market today. Featuring the highest throughput rotors, stainless steel construction and patented vent-and-reseal technology, ETHOS UP ensures market-leading safety and productivity.
Introduction
Demand for trace metals analysis in the food industry is growing strongly due to stricter food regulations such as the recent Food Safety Modernization Act. ICP has been the standard for metals analysis for food, but as demand for lower levels of detection grows, the industry is experiencing a significant transition to ICP-MS. This transition is placing increased emphasis on the sample preparation method. Traditional sample preparation techniques for food include hot block digestion, closed vessel microwave digestion, and ashing; each of them posing different challenges.
Hot block digestions suffer from long digestions, airborne contamination, poor digestion quality, and poor recovery of volatile compounds. Closed vessel microwave digestion has proven to be an effective technique with fast, complete digestions, a clean environment, and full recovery of volatile compounds.
Due to variability of the food samples in term of reactivity, most often the anlaysts have to compromise either performance or throughput.
Today, thanks to the latest Milestone development, a new option is available on: the MAXI-24 High Performance (HP). This innovative solution perfectly integrates with the powerfull ETHOS UP, matching both performance and throughput requirements of food elemental analysis.
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