Food Safety Conference 2022
05.10.2022 - 06.10.2022
TWICKENHAM STADIUM, LONDON, UK
The Food Safety Conference 2022 - New Food Events
Please join us at the Food Safety Conference 2022. The Food Safety Conference places some of the food and drink sector’s current major challenges in the spotlight. By assessing and debating some of the industry’s most challenging topics – including food safety, sustainability, transparency, trust and food safety culture – the aim is, to shed light on the things we may not want to know, but certainly should. The Shimadzu team is looking forward to welcome you, chat and discuss latest developments and solutions for the determination of contaminants in food and food packaging. We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
Oral Presentation
Analysis of Organic Residues and Contaminants using Gas Chromatography-based Techniques on the Example of Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons in Food
Andrea Hochegger, TU Graz, Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Graz, Austria
6th of October at 09:15 London Time
About the speaker:
Andrea Hochegger graduated in Chemistry from Graz University of Technology, Austria in 2017. Afterwards, she did her PhD in the field of analytical chemistry, focusing on packaging related food safety aspects and analytical contributions to the characterization of food and food contact materials. The main research interests included the analysis of mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) and the characterization of biopolymers to be used as functional barrier on cellulose-based packaging materials to reduce the migration of MOH into food. For this work she was awarded with the Leslie S.Ettre Award at the ISCC and GC×GC symposium in Riva del Garda in 2018, with an advancement award for young scientists of the Austrian Chemical Society in 2021 and with the young analytical scientists award of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry, also in 2021 . She finished her PhD in 2020 and is working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and food Chemistry at the TU Graz since then, continuing the research on mineral oil hydrocarbons in food.
Product Presentation
Pesticide Analysis using SFC-MS/MS – the green analytical approach
Uwe Oppermann, Shimadzu Europa GmbH, Duisburg, Germany
6th of October at 13:15 London Time
About the speaker:
Uwe Oppermann is the manager of the European food market segment in the headquarters of Shimadzu Europa GmbH in Duisburg. He studied Mineralogy with a focus on geochemistry and soil science at the Technical University of Braunschweig. During that time, he experienced working with analytical instrumentation for characterization and quantification of essential and toxic elements in rocks, minerals and soils. Since 1987, he has been working in the analytical business unit of Shimadzu with a focus on analytical solutions for testing food and beverages, targeting on the highest level of food quality and food safety.
The presentations will be available for download here after the event.
Product Lineup
Please come and visit us on our booth to get more information for the following instruments:
Nexera UHPLC system: “The perfect fit for food analysis”
Shimadzu’s Nexera series of UHPLC systems offers groundbreaking technology in terms of intelligence, efficiency and design. Advanced AI capabilities and lab management using the Internet of Things (IoT) have been integrated to monitor performance and resource allocation. They make the new Nexera systems a leading-edge and user-friendly solution for versatile industries, setting new benchmarks in UHPL
SFC-MS/MS: “Pesticide Analysis by SFC-MS”
SFC-MS/MS can be used to separate numerous pesticides with a wide range of different polarities, and it also achieves a marked increase in sensitivity for a large number of compounds. The combination of intrinsic universal sensitivity and specificity of the Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer with the versatility of supercritical fluid chromatography technique offers an appealing alternative to the conventional LC-MS approach.
LCMS-9030 „Integrates the worldʼ s fastest and most sensitive quadrupole technology with TOF architecture“
The quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) LCMS-9030 system is a research grade mass spectrometer designed to deliver high-resolution, accurate-mass detection with incredibly fast data acquisition rates, allowing scientists to identify and quantify more compounds with greater confidence.
LCMS-8060NX: “Maximized sensitivity – minimized matrix effects in Pesticide Analysis”
In the newly-developed IonFocus unit, the ion transport electrodes reduce sensitivity loss from matrix effects by expelling neutral matrix particles with greater efficiency. Using the LCMS-8060NX's world-class polarity reversal speed (5 ms) and data capture speed (1.5 ms), stable data was obtained even for high-speed analysis of multiple components. The IonFocus unit also introduces ions into the detector more efficiently, improving the signal intensity. Of 100 compounds tested in tea leaves, 96% showed excellent recoveries.
GCMS TQ-8050 NX „Ultra-High-Sensitivity Triple Quadrupole GC-MS for Food testing“
Equipped with a new highly efficient detector and three forms of noise-reduction technologies, the GCMS-TQ8050 NX is capable of performing unprecedented quantitative analyses of ultra-trace amounts, down to the femtogram level.
ICPMS-2030 for heavy metal analysis in food and beverages
The ICPMS-2030 is the first inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer including two assistant functions for analytical method development and diagnosis of analytical results. The newly developed collision cell provides highest sensitivity for analysis of heavy metals in hemp and cannabis samples. The use of the patented environmental friendly mini-torch results in lowest running cost.
