Press Releases

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    Agilent Presents Thought Leader Award to Dr. Stéphane Bayen

    Dr. Bayen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry at McGill University. The award will support Dr. Bayen’s research towards analytical techniques and the development of reliable and robust workflows to identify honey authenticity using non-targeted chemical fingerprinting strategies. 

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    Agilent Presents Thought Leader Award to Professor Chris Elliott

    Dr. Elliott is Professor of Food Safety in the  School of Biological Sciences and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast. The award recognizes his contributions to the field of food authenticity and the development of novel approaches to the detection of food fraud. 

Podcast

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    Using Science to Make Food Safer
    

    In this podcast series Professor Chris Elliott shares his thoughts on the challenges of food integrity and security, the impact of recent events on supply chains and the increasing challenge of environmental vs economic sustainability of foods. 

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    Food and the Value of Integrity
    

    A podcast interview regarding the value of integrity in food production and management with Dr. Franz Siegfried Wagner, CEO of Institut Dr. Wagner.

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Videos

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    Reliable Targeted Analysis Solutions to Fight Food Fraud

    Chris Elliott, Prof. of Food Safety and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast discusses how he employs Agilent mass spectrometry to help analyze food fraud. 
    

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    Food Safety and Authenticity Analysis

    Prof. Jana Hajslova, Head of Food Analysis & Nutrition at the University of Chemistry & Technology in Prague, details pesticides analysis, fingerprinting, and separating mycotoxin species. 

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    Airborne Honey Highlights Agilent Instrumentation

    Matt Campion highlights how the Agilent InfinityLab LC/MSD iQ system enables Airborne to test its honey for analytes and manuka markers, greatly reducing the requirement for external testing.

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    Honey: Substituting pure honey ingredients with cheaper ingredients such as rice or other variant syrups is an example of compromised or adulterated honey.

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    Milk: A valuable source of nutrients, milk is especially important for infants and children. With increased production to meet the growing demand, product quality should be closely monitored to ensure authenticity.

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    Edible Oils: Edible oils, an essential part of our daily diet, are used in their native form for high-temperature cooking such as frying. They also serve as an ingredient for adding texture, flavor, and nutritional improvers. 

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    Seafood: Checking the authenticity of fish species, Agilent’s PCR and lab-on-a-chip technologies are extremely useful. You may also need to check for harmful chemicals such as biogenic amines, hydrocarbons, drugs, or pesticides

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    Spices: Minerals or dangerous heavy metals in spices can be detected using Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) or microwave plasmas coupled with mass spectrometry or optical emission spectroscopy.  

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    Wine: To protect this valuable market, wine authenticity control, mainly in terms of varieties, geographical origin, and age is continuously required to detect any adulteration and to maintain wine quality.