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Ensuring food safety and quality is increasingly challenging. Whether you're analyzing for pesticide residues, ensuring that label claims are correct and accurate, or profiling for food authenticity, you need a system that delivers low detection levels and high sensitivity.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that have been used in a wide variety of industries around the world since the 1940s. Originally considered biologically inactive, more in-depth research has revealed their toxicity to humans and wildlife alike.

Download this app note to discover a microplate reader that covers a broad range of cell viability assay readouts, provides high sensitivity and full flexibility and offers a fast and easy assay setup.

Whether you are an environmental scientist or work to ensure that food meets the legal requirements for the consumer, it is imperative you keep up to speed with current research and thus the techniques and best practices that evolve from this research.

The Shell Technology Center in Bangalore, India (STCB) is one of the three Technology Centers within Shell that supports both R&D and laboratories at Shell, including non-operating joint venture assets. The analytical laboratory at STCB observed that they were spending a lot of time and energy coordinating services with multiple vendors, each supplying and maintaining highly varied and separate systems.

Food authenticity is defined as “the process of irrefutably proving that a food or food ingredient is in its original, genuine, verifiable and intended form as declared and represented” by the International Food Authenticity Assurance Organization (IFAAO).

Download this app note to discover a solution that enables excellent spectral library matching, is highly sensitive and displays linearity over a wide dynamic range.

Download this app note to discover a workflow that can detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA from challenging sample matrices and be used for the extraction and detection of other pathogens.

Glycosylation refers to the formation of linkages with glycosyl groups, covalently attaching a carbohydrate to another molecule. Antibody glycosylation is critical due to the role carbohydrates play in modulating effector functions which affect safety and efficacy of therapeutic antibodies.

Download this FREE application focus to learn more about how FTIR spectroscopy can be used to detect surface contamination.