Meet evolving food safety testing challenges and regulatory demands while delivering results with the speed and accuracy your stakeholders expect, saving money and minimizing the risk of recalls. Thermo Scientific products and services can help your lab run seamlessly, while enabling you to expand your menu of food analyses with innovative instruments and connected data to transform your output. Additionally, our complete end-to-end food analysis workflow solutions and educational resources let you focus on ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality food products.

Food safety quality testing workflow

 

Meet increasing food testing demands on time and with the high degree of accuracy your lab requires. From pesticide residue analysis to detecting mycotoxins and other biotoxins, we have your analytical needs covered.

Pesticide residues analysis

From time-saving sample preparation and extraction to the analysis of hundreds of pesticides and their metabolites in a single run, we can help ensure reliable and efficient results while complying with regulatory requirements.

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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Regulations regarding POPs, such as dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are increasingly strict, requiring modern instruments and methods for screening and identification.

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Food authenticity and profiling

Deliberate adulteration of food and misrepresentation to deceive consumers are illegal worldwide. Our testing innovations help you distinguish between genuine and fraudulent ingredients to instill consumer confidence.

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Vet drug residue analysis

Reduce start-up time and cost associated with expanding analytical capabilities. With our LC-MS solutions, you can perform robust targeted quantitation of multiclass veterinary drug residues in food matrices.

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Select the right technology to support your testing needs and search our online AppsLab Library of Analytical Applications  to access analytical methods with detailed method information, chromatograms, and related compound information.

We offer a technology to meet your analytical food testing needs

Use the table below to see what kinds of technologies best fit your food safety analysis requirements.

 Pesticide residues analysisVet drug residue analysisPersistent organic pollutantsFood contact materialsFood authenticity and profiling
High resolution accurate mass (HRAM) LC-MS and/or GC-MScheckmarkcheckmarkcheckmarkcheckmarkcheckmark
GC, GC-MS, GC-MS/MScheckmark checkmarkcheckmark 
Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS  checkmark  
HPLC, LC-MS or LC-MS/MScheckmarkcheckmark checkmark 
IC and IC-MScheckmark   checkmark
ICP-MScheckmark  checkmark 
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS)    checkmark
Automated sample preparationcheckmark checkmarkcheckmarkcheckmark
Dispersive SPE (QuEChERS)checkmarkcheckmark   
NIR, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy    checkmark
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Connecting your data to transform your analytical food testing lab

Providing timely, reportable results requires access to a truly connected method setup and data processing ecosystem. Regardless of application, our data management and analysis solutions make your screening, quantitation, and unknown identification challenges easier to meet.

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We offer analytical workflows designed to meet food testing regulatory guidelines and deliver robust, off-the-shelf solutions for fast implementation and optimum performance for contract testing and other routine testing labs.

Food and beverage resource guide for commercial food testing laboratories

Get an overview of our portfolio of application note compendiums, which demonstrate how our chromatography, trace elemental, and mass spectrometry systems consistently deliver data that is compliant with regulations.

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Food integrity: Authenticity and adulteration of food and beverages

Download a comprehensive book outlining regulations, analysis and future trends for the food and beverage industry including a discussion of different analytical techniques.

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Analytical challenges for pesticide residue analysis in food

This white paper reviews different sample processing procedures and various sample extraction and clean-up strategies, for pesticide residue analysis in food.

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Trends in Untargeted Food Analysis

This white paper addresses three areas of concern, specifically pesticide residues, mycotoxins, FCMs in packaging and analytical techniques that can be used to identify unknown or unexpected food contaminants.

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Food Safety and Labeling Issues for Testing Laboratories

This two-part eBook outlines various ways that testing laboratories can meet regulatory requirements using chromatography and mass spectrometry technologies to support food and beverage testing for many chemical residues and contaminants.

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A multi-residue method for quantitation of pesticides in chicken, lamb, and fish using LC-MS/MS

The goal of this project is to demonstrate the performance and versatility of the LC-MS/MS workflow featuring the Thermo Scientific™ TSQ Quantis™ Plus mass spectrometer for trace-level quantitation of pesticide residues in lamb, chicken, and fish.

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Quantitation of pesticide residues in rice, grape, tomato, and chili powder using LC-MS/MS

The goal of this project is to demonstrate the performance and versatility of the Thermo Scientific™ TSQ Quantis™ Plus mass spectrometer for trace level quantitation of pesticide residues in samples of rice, grape, tomato, and chili powder.

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Food and beverage resource guide for commercial food testing laboratories

Get an overview of our portfolio of application note compendiums, which demonstrate how our chromatography, trace elemental, and mass spectrometry systems consistently deliver data that is compliant with regulations.

 Download application note ›

Food integrity: Authenticity and adulteration of food and beverages

Download a comprehensive book outlining regulations, analysis and future trends for the food and beverage industry including a discussion of different analytical techniques.

Download eBook ›

Analytical challenges for pesticide residue analysis in food

This white paper reviews different sample processing procedures and various sample extraction and clean-up strategies, for pesticide residue analysis in food.

Download white paper ›

Trends in Untargeted Food Analysis

This white paper addresses three areas of concern, specifically pesticide residues, mycotoxins, FCMs in packaging and analytical techniques that can be used to identify unknown or unexpected food contaminants.

Download whitepaper ›

Food Safety and Labeling Issues for Testing Laboratories

This two-part eBook outlines various ways that testing laboratories can meet regulatory requirements using chromatography and mass spectrometry technologies to support food and beverage testing for many chemical residues and contaminants.

 Download eBook ›

A multi-residue method for quantitation of pesticides in chicken, lamb, and fish using LC-MS/MS

The goal of this project is to demonstrate the performance and versatility of the LC-MS/MS workflow featuring the Thermo Scientific™ TSQ Quantis™ Plus mass spectrometer for trace-level quantitation of pesticide residues in lamb, chicken, and fish.

 Download application note ›

Quantitation of pesticide residues in rice, grape, tomato, and chili powder using LC-MS/MS

The goal of this project is to demonstrate the performance and versatility of the Thermo Scientific™ TSQ Quantis™ Plus mass spectrometer for trace level quantitation of pesticide residues in samples of rice, grape, tomato, and chili powder.

 Download application note ›

 

How innovative analytical technologies help meet the global demand for safer food production

Prof. Fernández-Alba discusses the dynamic world of pesticide residues, and highlights the need for cutting-edge technologies and accelerated workflows to achieve more, faster, and better analyses.

Analysis of Complex Coffee Bean Contaminants with High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

Swedish Food Agency chemists, Susanne Ekroth and Julio Espana, discuss their latest project on identifying contaminants in coffee and share how they were able to merge a multi-residue method with a single-residue method using Thermo Fisher Scientific's innovative technologies.

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