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The increasing global demand for food has led to a growing use of pesticides, resulting in elevated risks of trace level chemical pollutants in food. Rapid and reliable methods are required to identify and quantify these pollutants with high sensitivity and over a wide dynamic range.

Unlocking Carbon-13 With Single Particle ICP-MS: Feasibility Study for Microplastic Detection

Since there are no federal regulations for pesticide analysis in cannabis, individual states have developed their own regulations outlining the list of pesticides to monitor and the maximum residue limits or acceptable limits for each pesticide.

Due to growing health and environmental concerns, there is a critical need to perform existing and upcoming regulatory methods efficiently and reliably on commercially available instrumentation

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).