Food Authenticity Testing

Food Authenticity Testing

Defend against food fraud, protect global brands, and ensure consumer safety with Waters cutting-edge chromatography and mass spectrometry workflows. Global food and beverage testing organizations rely on Waters fit-for-purpose, reliable solutions to help mitigate the risk of intentional or unintentional adulteration.

Defend against food fraud, protect global brands, and ensure consumer safety with Waters cutting-edge chromatography and mass spectrometry workflows. Global food and beverage testing organizations rely on Waters fit-for-purpose, reliable solutions to help mitigate the risk of intentional or unintentional adulteration.

Honey jars on a shelf
Honey jars on a shelf

Overview

Economically motivated food adulteration costs companies billions of dollars annually, with honey and maple syrup, olive oil, spices, and seafood some of the most commonly adulterated products. With the food supply chain becoming ever more complex, food and beverage manufacturers play a crucial role in ensuring a final product’s authenticity and quality.

Benefit from Waters reliable technologies, applications expertise, and support to help you streamline your testing processes and minimize the risk to your brands and consumers.


Applications

Waters LC-MS technologies enable precise detection and quantification of adulterants and authenticity markers in food products. By providing accurate and reliable data, these technologies help companies identify and prevent food fraud, ensuring product integrity and consumer safety.

Waters LC-MS technologies enable precise detection and quantification of adulterants and authenticity markers in food products. By providing accurate and reliable data, these technologies help companies identify and prevent food fraud, ensuring product integrity and consumer safety.


Application Notes

Application Notes
Scientist walking in a laboratory with ACQUITY I-Class, ACQUITY RDa, and Andrew Plus systems


White Paper: Simple and Accessible Food Testing with RADIAN ASAP

Recent high-profile food scandals underscore the importance of analytical testing during food manufacturing and throughout the food supply chain. This white paper describes how Waters RADIAN ASAP, a direct mass spectrometry system, provides easy and low-cost analysis with minimal sample preparation to quickly profile liquid and solid food products for streamlined processing.

Recent high-profile food scandals underscore the importance of analytical testing during food manufacturing and throughout the food supply chain. This white paper describes how Waters RADIAN ASAP, a direct mass spectrometry system, provides easy and low-cost analysis with minimal sample preparation to quickly profile liquid and solid food products for streamlined processing.


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Solutions


Waters technologies safeguard the food supply chain with advanced testing solutions to protect against food fraud and ensure food authenticity.

Waters technologies safeguard the food supply chain with advanced testing solutions to protect against food fraud and ensure food authenticity.

The power of knowing now

The power of knowing now

Analyze food and beverage samples and generate your results in seconds with RADIAN ASAP, a direct analysis, single quadrupole MS system specifically designed for rapid and easy analysis of liquids and solids for fast, confident decisions.

  • Rapid Direct Sample Analysis
  • Real-Time Sample Recognition

Improve your lab productivity, efficiency, and throughput

Improve your lab productivity, efficiency, and throughput

Waters UPLC/UHPLC systems and detectors for sub-2-micron (high pressure, small particle size) separations can be highly beneficial for your analytical laboratory with maximum performance and enhanced productivity.

  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Complex chromatography challenges, solved

Complex chromatography challenges, solved

Improve your resolving power, lower your system volume and achieve the tallest, sharpest peaks with the ACQUITY UPLC I-Class PLUS System that enhances the sensitivity of any mass spectrometer and simplifies the characterization of the most complex sample.

  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Separate beyond question with the power of mass detection

Separate beyond question with the power of mass detection

Take single quadrupole performance to the next level with the easy-to-use ACQUITY QDa II Mass Detector, complementary to optical detection to minimize the risk of unexpected components or co-elutions and confirm trace sample constituents in a single workflow.

  • Real-Time Sample Recognition
  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Delivering SmartMS to the masses

Delivering SmartMS to the masses

Increase productivity, improve data confidence and simplify routine accurate mass workflows with the ACQUITY RDa Detector that is compact, compliance-ready, and ensures easy access to high resolution mass measurements. 

  • Real-Time Sample Recognition
  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Without discovery, decisions are made in the dark

Without discovery, decisions are made in the dark

Obtain ultimate flexibility and greater freedom of analytical choice with SYNAPT XS mass spectrometer, and support your food and beverage analysis success with cutting-edge analytical performance for any application.

  • Rapid Direct Sample Analysis
  • Real-Time Sample Recognition
  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Best value performance per square inch of bench space

Best value performance per square inch of bench space

Achieve high quality data, injection after injection, with the Xevo TQ-S micro that offers a versatile universal source for the sensitivity, selectivity, and performance required in targeted analyses.

  • Rapid Direct Sample Analysis
  • LC-MS Profiling

Complete coverage for confident characterization

Complete coverage for confident characterization

Maximize sample information for your analytes from detailed characterization to accurate quantitation with the Xevo G3 QTof, which enables complete confidence in your results.

  • Rapid Direct Sample Analysis
  • Real-Time Sample Recognition
  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Direct molecular profiling in seconds

Direct molecular profiling in seconds

Eliminate the need for sample preparation and chromatographic separation with the REIMS Research System with iKnife Sampling that allows you to collect an accurate mass MS profile within seconds per sample for detailed molecular information.

  • Rapid Direct Sample Analysis
  • Real-Time Sample Recognition
  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Endless possibilities. Limitless research.

Endless possibilities. Limitless research.

Developed through focused collaboration, the SELECT SERIES Cyclic IMS combines novel cyclic ion mobility separation with state-of-the-art, high performance, time-of-flight mass spectrometry, enabling leading researchers to unlock the potential in scientific discovery.

  • Rapid Direct Sample Analysis
  • Real-Time Sample Recognition
  • Integrated Omics Techniques


The data speaks for itself

The data speaks for itself
(A) Further markers of interest in basmati rice, isolated using the Correlation Analysis in Progenesis QI. (B) A right click allows easy tagging of these markers for elucidation. (C) Standardized abundance profiles of all
57 isolated markers are shown across all injections.
PCA scores plot in EZinfo of cereal samples and separate model with only oat samples (all samples injected in triplicate). PCA scores plot in EZinfo of cereal samples and separate model with only oat samples (all samples injected in triplicate).
Identified allergenic proteins for serially diluted cooked egg in the presence of cookie matrix. Number of peptides (black), sum of intensity for the top three most abundant peptides (grey), and sequence coverage (blue). An example chromatogram is provided for 50 ppm of cooked egg in the presence of the cookie matrix. Identified allergenic proteins for serially diluted cooked egg in the presence of cookie matrix. Number of peptides (black), sum of intensity for the top three most abundant peptides (grey), and sequence coverage (blue). An example chromatogram is provided for 50 ppm of cooked egg in the presence of the cookie matrix. 
LiveID real-time recognition results for two of the independent validation samples (oregano-45 and olive-2) acquired on two different RADIAN-ASAP instruments.

LiveID real-time recognition results for two of the independent validation samples (oregano-45 and olive-2) acquired on two different RADIAN-ASAP instruments.

 


Webinars and Resources



  • Brochure

Real-time Sample Recognition with LiveID Software

Real-time Sample Recognition with LiveID Software
  • Reference Card

Food Testing Application Notes

Food Testing Application Notes
  • Brochure

REIMS Research System with iKnife Sampling for Food and Agricultural Research

REIMS Research System with iKnife Sampling for Food and Agricultural Research

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Learn more about Food Authenticity Testing Solutions.

Learn more about Food Authenticity Testing Solutions.

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