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Rapid Identification Of Meat Species

MultiNA simplifies the pre-processing and detection operations
in the identification of meat species, and enables convenient,
accurate and rapid identification of each meat species.

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Screening Of Trace Level Screening of Bacteria, Algae and
Of Toxic Metals Fungi in Food

MALDI-TOF MS has been used
as a quick and simple technique
for microbial identification in
recent years. However, simple
identification of the organism is not
sufficient in many cases, generating
the need of using MALDI-TOF
MS/MS. By fragmenting specific
sample ions and identifying the
resulting fragment ions, MALDITOF
MS/MS can be used to generate
Shimadzu offers best in class instrument, ICPMS-2030, for structural information regarding
analysing toxic metal contents in foods to ensure food safety. the intact molecule. MS/MS also
The ICP-MS is able to quickly measure a wide range of elements enables specific compounds to
in variety of raw ingredient and finished food products for be detected in complex mixtures
example meat, fish, milk and other packaged /processed foods. on account of their characteristic
Food products can contain elements in different chemical forms fragmentation patterns. Shimadzu
or oxidation states. By connecting the ICPMS-2030 in-line with a ‘iDPlus series’ offers solutions from
HPLC system, speciation of such chemical forms can be achieved simple identification to complete
with high sensitivity. Some of the typical speciation examples characterisation of proteins.
include determination of different arsenic or chromium species Applications such as identifying
in stated food products.
adulteration in food stuffs,
molecular profiling and cluster
analysis is possible with ‘iDPlus’
series of MALDI-TOF.
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