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.
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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

Food fraud is a global challenge that risks consumer safety and trust. Quickly, easily, and cost-effectively analyzing liquids and solids is a priority for food authenticity testing. Directly analyzing different samples through mass spectrometry minimizes the need for extraction or chromatography, enabling faster, more informed decision-making.

Food fraud is a global challenge that risks consumer safety and trust. Quickly, easily, and cost-effectively analyzing liquids and solids is a priority for food authenticity testing. Directly analyzing different samples through mass spectrometry minimizes the need for extraction or chromatography, enabling faster, more informed decision-making.

Application Notes

Application Notes

Investigating the authenticity, adulteration, and the quality of food or raw materials in testing laboratories in real time is important. Learn how labs are using authentic or verified samples to create and validate a statistical model to test samples and generate live classifications.

Investigating the authenticity, adulteration, and the quality of food or raw materials in testing laboratories in real time is important. Learn how labs are using authentic or verified samples to create and validate a statistical model to test samples and generate live classifications.

Application Notes

Application Notes

Omics and related analytical techniques are being applied to reduce food fraud and its negative impact. Deep expertise and guidance around the latest trends from Waters can help you tackle food fraud and ensure safe and authentic products. Waters LC-MS systems and software are designed to accelerate throughput, enhance sensitivity, increase accuracy, and ensure compliance.

Omics and related analytical techniques are being applied to reduce food fraud and its negative impact. Deep expertise and guidance around the latest trends from Waters can help you tackle food fraud and ensure safe and authentic products. Waters LC-MS systems and software are designed to accelerate throughput, enhance sensitivity, increase accuracy, and ensure compliance.

Application Notes

Application Notes

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
RADIAN ASAP Direct Mass Detector

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
UPLC/UHPLC Systems

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
ACQUITY UPLC I-Class PLUS System

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
ACQUITY QDa II Mass Detector

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
ACQUITY RDa Detector

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
SYNAPT XS High Resolution Mass Spectrometer

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
Xevo TQ-S micro Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer

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
Xevo G3 QTof

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
REIMS Research System with iKnife Sampling Device

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.
SELECT SERIES Cyclic IMS

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

Our portfolio of informatics solutions ensures our customers benefit from optimal data analysis, handling, and interpretation.

Our portfolio of informatics solutions ensures our customers benefit from optimal data analysis, handling, and interpretation.

Real-time sample recognition

Real-time sample recognition
LiveID Software

Get the information you need immediately at the time of analysis for informed, real-time decision-making with LiveID Software that enables real-time sample classification using direct analysis mass spectrometry (MS) to remove doubt from sample identity.

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

Discover the significantly changing compounds in your samples

Discover the significantly changing compounds in your samples
Progenesisi QI

Accurately quantify and identify compounds in your samples that are significantly changing with Progenesis QI Software that offers a highly intuitive menu-guided workflow enabling you to easily export results for omics research applications.

  • Integrated Omics Techniques
  • Rapid Direct Sample Analysis

Elevate your chromatography with the universal language of the lab

Elevate your chromatography with the universal language of the lab
Empower Chromatography Data System

Equip your lab with Empower Chromatography Data System (CDS) and gain advanced laboratory data management for your analyses, including acquisition, processing, and reporting for liquid and gas chromatography instruments

  • LC-MS Profiling

Market-leading versatility and flexibility for food authenticity

Market-leading versatility and flexibility for food authenticity
MassLynx Mass Spectrometry Software

Better leverage your MS system and harness real-time intelligence, ensure MS system performance, and more quickly convert sample data into valuable knowledge with MassLynx Mass Spectrometry Software.

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

Scalable, flexible informatics for advanced data integrity and security

Scalable, flexible informatics for advanced data integrity and security
waters_connect Software Solutions

waters_connect is a scalable, secure, and compliant –ready platform design to help analytical laboratories optimize data exploration and utilization. Our platform accelerates scientific and business outcomes by facilitating faster and more robust analyses.

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

Our reliable and robust columns and consumables can be easily integrated into your food and beverage chromatography workflows.

Our reliable and robust columns and consumables can be easily integrated into your food and beverage chromatography workflows.

Stop looking and start seeing – no compromise required

Stop looking and start seeing – no compromise required
ACQUITY Premier Columns

Achieve increases in sensitivity and analyte recovery while reducing column passivation time and mitigating unwanted analyte/surface interactions with ACQUITY Premier Columns built on Waters industry-leading sub-2-µm particle technologies.

  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Maximize lab efficiency with fewer failed assays and lower instrument downtime

Maximize lab efficiency with fewer failed assays and lower instrument downtime
Standard & Certified HPLC Sample Vials

Reduce failed assays from unknown contaminant peaks and limit instrument downtime in your food testing lab with Waters Standard & Certified HPLC Sample Vials.

  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Faster, cleaner, and simpler sample preparation starts here

Faster, cleaner, and simpler sample preparation starts here
Oasis Sample Extraction Products

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.

  • Integrated Omics Techniques

Obtain a powerful set of technological tools and support for the development, deployment, migration, and management of chromatography methods with Waters analytical services.

Obtain a powerful set of technological tools and support for the development, deployment, migration, and management of chromatography methods with Waters analytical services.

Complete services to meet your compliance needs

Complete services to meet your compliance needs
Analytical Services

Meet your laboratory compliance and data integrity needs while gaining end-to-end support for method development, transfer, and migration with Waters Analytical Services.

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

Your success is just a click away

Your success is just a click away
Waters Global Services

Optimize your laboratory's productivity and success with Waters Global Services. Maintain peak system performance, minimize downtime, address application challenges, and support stringent compliance requirements.

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

Make science more accessible 

Make science more accessible 
Payment Solutions

Maximize resources and minimize risk with payment options from Waters Capital, including upgrading aging equipment, getting customized support, and bundling services into one monthly payment.

  • 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).
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.

 

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Real-time Sample Recognition with LiveID Software

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Food Testing Application Notes

Food Testing Application Notes
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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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