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Shimadzu Partners with Miyazaki Prefecture in Establishing
an Incorporated Association to Analyze Food Safety

The Miyazaki Agricultural Research Institute which holds the new incorporated association

Shimadzu Corporation has established an incorporated association in preparation, but also extremely high sensitivity. The system has
partnership with Miyazaki Prefecture to analyze the safety of food. The significantly shortened the turn-around-time from test acceptance
association will undertake analyses of residual pesticides in agricultural through to production of the report.
and food products. The opening ceremony was held on November 5 at
the Miyazaki Agricultural Research Institute, and was attended by the At the opening ceremony, Governor Kouno greeted attendees saying
Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture, Shunji Kouno, and by Kozo Miseki, “I hope that we will be able to continue our joint research into residual
Deputy General Manager of the Analytical & Measuring Instruments pesticide analysis and functional ingredients, allowing Miyazaki to
Division, Shimadzu Corporation. About 30 people participated in the contribute to the availability of safer food products and to consumers'
event. greater peace of mind.” Deputy General Manager Miseki said “It is
truly an honor for Shimadzu that the Nexera UC is able to play such a
Miyazaki Prefecture is one of Japan's major food supply areas, and role in ensuring food safety based on science and technology.”
already has in place a top-level inspection system called the “Miyazaki
Method,” which utilizes a unique technology for analyzing residual
pesticides. The prefecture has been successful in branding several of its
agricultural products. The incorporated association was established
with the goal of applying the analysis technology widely within the
agricultural and food industries, both inside and outside Miyazaki
Prefecture, in order to contribute to the improvement of food safety
and to the development of industry.

The incorporated association has installed the first unit of the Nexera
UC supercritical fluid extraction/chromatography system, which was
developed by Shimadzu Corporation with the assistance of the Japan
Science and Technology Agency (JST) and in collaboration with Osaka
University, Kobe University and Miyazaki Prefecture. The Nexera UC
features technology patented by Miyazaki Prefecture, and offers not
only complete automation of the analysis processes, including sample The first unit of the Nexera UC supercritical fluid extraction/chromatography system

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