Thermo Fisher Scientific will showcase laboratory instrumentation and informatics solutions for food, beverage and agricultural applications at the AOAC International meeting, Dallas, 21-24 September.
Thermo Fisher Scientific's offerings will include a number of progressive solutions for the identification of contaminants within the food chain and the environment.
Products being showcased include Nautilus laboratory informatics management system (LIMS) data management software, which automates laboratory workflows by integrating instruments, providing automated screening, user notifications and providing traceability of sample results back to their source.
Nautilus is designed for use in laboratories where analysis, varying materials and product demands require heightened adaptability.
Offering flexibility and ease-of-use, the LIMS helps organisations monitor control and compliance with food, beverage and agriculture industry related regulations.
The Thermo Scientific Exactive, a benchtop LC-MS system, will also be showcased at the show.
Exactive accommodates compound screening and identification applications.
Resolutions of up to 100,000 allow identification of pesticides, metabolites and other target compounds within complex samples.
Eliminating many of the technical steps that require specialised set-up and operation, the Exactive provides mass accuracy in positive and negative modes for screening pesticides.
In addition, AOAC 2008 will see the Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum triple quadrupole system, which enables highly selective reaction monitoring (H-SRM) performance.
Teamed with FAIMS, this technology provides significant immunity against matrix interferences.
It features an ESI probe with Dual Desolvation Zone technology that optimises performance and speeds method development.
In combination with the Thermo Scientific TriPlusTM Autosampler, the company said any type of injection technique is possible.
The Thermo Scientific Aria TLX-2 system, powered by TurboFlow technology, will also be on show.
It offers an advanced analytical method to reduce the amount of time spent on sample preparation typically associated with other methods.
In addition, the TLX system offers an independent, parallel, multi-channel high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system, increasing the mass spectrometry throughput and avoiding the high capital costs associated with other methods.
Thermo Fisher will also host a number of poster sessions and deliver a presentation entitled 'The New Era in Food Safety Methods Through Advances in Mass Spectrometry.' The presentation covers food safety regulations from the European Community, Japan and the US, and it will be held on 23 September at 9:45am.
