Supplier of certified reference materials, pharmaceutical substances and impurities offers a 10% discount on selected food materials at the German show
LGC Promochem, which claims to be Europe's most comprehensive source of reference materials, will be offering visitors at Analytica 2004 information on a host of new products as well as technical advice on the use of reference materials. New products such as sulphur in diesel and Sudan 1 dye standards are just some of the materials that are hot in the industry at the moment and are available through LGC Promochem.
A range of new SnapNshoot standards from ChromaDex and conductivity standards from Reagecon will also feature.
In addition, there will be a particular focus on products of relevance to the food sector.
This will include a special promotion of products used for analysis in food laboratories, with a 10% discount on selected items.
Chemical and microbiological testing underpin laboratory-based food quality assurance processes and the results of these analyses help ensure that food contents meet labelling requirements and that food is fit for consumption.
Reference materials and biological standards play a vital role in ensuring the accuracy and validity of the analytical results, which are so crucial in assuring consumers of product quality and safety - standards are used to calibrate equipment, while matrix materials are required to prove that a method is valid and ensure consistent results.
LGC Promochem is part of the LGC group of companies and has offices in eight countries worldwide.
As the UK's national measurement institute for chemical and biochemical analysis, LGC has its own in-house reference material production facility and LGC reference materials form the heart of the food product range available through LGC Promochem.
Examples of particular interest are: reference materials for the identification of meat species; reference standards for the GM content of soya and maize; isotopically labelled nitrofuran drug standards for checking for the presence of these banned drugs in meat and fish products; and milk powders certified for microbiological contamination.
Elizabeth Jordain, head of LGC Promochem, commented: "Our attendance at Analytica 2004 highlights our commitment to reference materials and in particular the emphasis we place on the needs of the food sector. "LGC Promochem offers a diverse selection of products for the food industry: from standards for vitamins, colours and sweeteners to residue standards for contaminants such as veterinary medicines, mycotoxins and pesticides".
LGC Promochem supplies an extensive range of pharmaceutical reference substances, impurity standards, pharmacopoeial reagents and phytochemical reference standards to researchers worldwide.
This, along with distribution agreements with leading reference material manufacturers including the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and ChromaDex, means that LGC Promochem allows pharmaceutical organisations to meet all their method validation and quality control needs in one place.
The latest pharmaceutical reference materials catalogue from LGC Promochem contains over 250 new reference standards, and its pharmaceutical impurity product range has expanded to include 1400 individual standards, many of which are from the Mikromol range of impurity standards.
