Waters has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) has bought nine Waters Acquity ultra-performance LC (UPLC) systems.
It is using the systems to protect the US food supply by monitoring domestically produced and imported food sold in interstate commerce.
The instruments will be placed within CFSAN's Office of Regulatory Science for developing and validating robust and reproducible methods for testing food additives, pesticide residues, dietary supplements, mycotoxins, vitamins, seafood toxins, industrial chemicals, and regulated food and cosmetic products.
FDA scientists selected the Waters Acquity UPLC systems based on the need for liquid chromatography instrumentation with the required resolution, sensitivity, and speed to meet the challenges of modern multi-residue analysis.
The agency's College Park laboratories are equipped with three Acquity UPLC systems along with two NanoAcquity UPLC systems, several of which are paired with mass spectrometers for analyte quantification and identity confirmation.
The additional UPLC systems will add to the capacity of the FDA's laboratories to develop additional methods and give a larger number of investigators access to the technology.
