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Food, Beverage & Agriculture

Techniques & Tools Mass Spectrometry

Keeping it Kosher

| Ashley Sage

The University of Münster and AB Sciex join forces to enhance detection of fraudulent meat using LC-MS/MS

Fields & Applications Food, Beverage & Agriculture

Toxic Cocktails

| Alberto Mantovani

What are the effects of mixtures of toxic substances, all present at low concentrations in our foodstuffs, and how should we go about measuring them?

Fields & Applications Food, Beverage & Agriculture

Setting the Scene, with Odors

| Rich Whitworth

Research using lobsters shows how discontinuous odor information is integrated at the neuronal level to produce an ‘olfactory scene’. It could have practical applications in identifying the location of explosives or drugs.

Fields & Applications Food, Beverage & Agriculture

The Future of Foodomics

| Alejandro Cifuentes

Right now, we can only see small pieces of the colossal picture entitled “Food and Health”.

Fields & Applications Mass Spectrometry

Analytical Scientist's lunchtime humour

Nick Kim gifts us with his very analytical and amusing view of the world around us.

Fields & Applications Food, Beverage & Agriculture

Herbal Bubble Toil and Trouble

| Rich Whitworth

DNA barcoding highlights a disturbing trend in the composition of herb-based health products – contamination, substitution, and unlabeled fillers make up your daily dose

Techniques & Tools Spectroscopy

Pittcon Prelude

| Rich Whitworth

The Windy City is set to welcome “the world’s largest annual premier conference and exposition on laboratory science”, but are you prepared? Here, we look at historical attendance trends and offer our top picks.

Fields & Applications Food, Beverage & Agriculture

Chewing Over Food Analysis

| Hans-Gerd Janssen, Yolanda Pico, Michele Suman, Rudolf Krska, Michel Nielen

We sample the views of five food analysis experts. Is separation science still the greatest thing since sliced bread, or are there bigger fish to fry?

Fields & Applications Technology

Orbitrap Against All Odds

| Alexander Makarov

The development of Orbitrap™ has taken up all of my professional life. It’s been a story of luck, perseverance, and, ultimately, success.

Fields & Applications Food, Beverage & Agriculture

Soybean Blunder

| Rich Whitworth

Taiwan proudly set the tightest limits on glyphosate, but failed to measure the herbicide

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