New pesticide detection service for the food industry promises a rapid turn-round and competitive pricing for general screening and detection of specific residues
Reading Scientific Services (RSSL) is to launch a new pesticide detection service for the food industry.
The new service is being offered in partnership with an approved third party laboratory, which offers expertise in high-resolution mass spectrometry to complement RSSL's existing analytical techniques.
It promises a rapid turn-round of five days and competitive pricing for general screening and detection of specific residues.
The general screening service will detect more than 75 residues, including a wide range of organo-chlorines, organo-phosphates, pyrethroids and a selection of other residues.
Residues can be detected at levels below the stricter MRLs (maximum residue limits) proposed for introduction in 2007.
According to Simon Flanagan of RSSL this is a development that will transform pesticide residue analysis in the UK.
He comments: "The food industry has been crying out for a rapid and reliable analytical service for pesticide residues.
"Clients have become used to rapid turn-round in other areas of analysis, and this has only served to increase frustrations that labs have not been able to provide a similar service for pesticides.
"We are very confident that under the new arrangements RSSL will remedy this situation and give the industry the service it demands."
