Food Testing

Among the most demanding areas facing food laboratories today are:

• Authentication
• Trace contamination
• And product quality & aroma profiling

Challenges faced when analysing complex food & drink samples

Chemists working in the food and drink (beverage) industry face an increasing range of challenges and pressures when analysing increasing complex samples. These include:

• Ever-lower detection limits
• Need for comprehensive profiling
• Faster sample turnaround
• Presence of water
• Improving lab sustainability

Markes’ Centri sample extraction and concentration platforms help overcome these challenges and deliver the best possible data from your samples. 

Achieving lower detection limits for trace contaminants in foods and drinks

Routinely monitoring low-level contaminants in foods and drinks requires an analytical approach that is not just high-throughput and adaptable, but also highly sensitive.

To address this challenge and improve sensitivity, our Centri platform provides several possibilities: high-capacity HiSorb™ probes, trap-based focusing for headspace and SPME, or multiple headspace extraction.

Quickly obtaining overall VOC profiles for foods and beverages

The extreme complexity and variability of many foods and beverages can make it difficult to obtain a comprehensive, representative VOC profile.

But Markes' Centri platform can help you expand the range of abundant and trace-level analytes in various ways, thanks to its range of sample introduction techniques, inert flowpath, and compatibility with HiSorb probes, multi-sorbent trapping and ‘High/Low’ analysis.