Food, Beverage & Agriculture

Is pesticide residue analysis still a hot topic? Ahead of EPRW 2016 in Cyprus, current Chair – Despo Louca Christodoulou – and scientific organizing committee members Magnus Jezussek and Sonja Masselter discuss the importance of the field in challenging times.

In many European countries, the limit of lactose in lactose-free labelled products has been lowered from 100 to 10 mg/100 g product in recent years (1).

Developing an effective strategy to combat food fraud can be challenging; it means thinking on your feet and staying ahead of the game.

Munich will play host to the 2016 Humanity in Science Award winner – and much more

Time to ditch the tasting notes? Enjoyment of wine may depend on oral bacteria...

An over-used expression seems particularly relevant at 37,000 feet...

Drugs get a second chance to enter our bodies - via wastewater and fish…

Triple detection GPC/SEC combines measurements from multiple detectors to offer not only increased amounts of data, but also increased amounts of information, which is made available by the combination of different detectors (and unobtainable using individual detectors separately). The theory of triple detection GPC/SEC is described here.

This application note describes the analyses of a variety of aqueous (water-soluble) cellulose derivatives using the OMNISEC triple detection system and the subtle, yet distinct differences between these different derivatives that can be parsed out by the OMNISEC system

In this application note, molecular weight data from the Viscotek SEC-MALS 20 is combined with measurements of Rg and IV to study the structure of different polysaccharides including pullulan, dextran, hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC), pectin and gum Arabic. The differences between conformation and Mark-Houwink plots are also studied.