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Food Safety
LECO supports food safety testing through contaminant detection, trace element analysis, and protein verification, helping manufacturers meet strict regulatory and consumer standards.
203-821-525
Reporting the fat content of food on packaging material is required for many products. For this reason, the ability to detect and distinguish different types of fats is important. The AOAC has an official method, Method 996.06, for the detection o...
203-821-408
The American Heart Association recommends eating two servings of fish per week, specifically fish with high fat content such as tuna and salmon. In this study, the advantages of using the Pegasus GC-HRT to analyze complex matrices such as fish oil...
411-956-008
The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority has been using GCxGC-TOFMS for the analysis of pesticide residues in food of plant origin since 2005. Radim Stepan will talk about the advances in the instruments and the analyses they have used ...
411-525-002
The AOAC Official Method (925.10) Solids (Total) and Moisture in Flour utilizes a manual, air oven, loss-on-drying technique that is widely used in the food industry. AOAC Official Method (923.03) Ash in Flour also utilizes a manual, air oven, los...
411-525-003
One of the most common moisture determination methods is a manual mass loss on drying using an air oven following the AOAC Moisture in Meat Method (950.46). Lloyd Allen will talk about how an automated thermogravimetric moisture instrument, such a...
203-821-610
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203-821-477
CF-RIVA12-LPSS-085
Microwaved food and containers were analyzed for indicators of Bisphenol A (BPA) and other leachates.
401-952-714
In this insightful presentation, Ray Marsili of Marsili Consulting Group delves into the complexities of how food packaging materials can influence the sensory characteristics of food products. He explores mechanisms such as leaching, flavor scalp...
401-952-737
The current analytical method for the quantitative determination of Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbons (MOSH) and Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons (MOAH) is LC-GC-FID, but the chromaticagraphic profile obtained is too often just a hump of unresol...
DA-RIVA14-LPSS-134
EU19-04-2023
Explore the differences between the Kjeldahl and Dumas methods and describe the benefits of the latter. We also cover the advantages of the ballast/aliquot principle, provide analytical examples, and conduct a live demonstration, followed by a Q&A...
DE-Eur-SP-LD-CLS
LECO's Pegasus BT 4D GCxGC-TOFMS system was used to review the complexity of contaminated food samples, providing superior chromatographic resolution and identification capabilities compared to the LC-GC-FID method.
LECO Pegasus BT 4D users, Dr. Susanne Kuhn, discusses their GCxGC work.