Sara Lee Frozen Bakery celebrates the addition of a state-of-the-art 10,000 sq.-ft. R&D innovation center and test kitchen with an opening ceremony at its headquarters in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.
In the U.S., there are 33 states, plus the District of Columbia, with some form of legal cannabis for medicinal purposes, and 10 states that allow it for recreational use. However, when it comes to specifying the level of THC, CBD, terpenes and the other 80 or so constituent components in cannabis, there's a smorgasbord of rules and regulations.
A new, portable contaminant detector—now in trials by food processors and supply chain participants—promises to make testing for unwanted chemical constituents much faster and easier, truly "on the spot."
In-home testing (iHUT) traces its origins to the consumer packaged goods industries and the formation of the first marketing research departments during the 1920s and 1930s. With the end of World War II in 1945, the practice of in-home usage testing spread rapidly.
Shimadzu GCMS NX series gas chromatograph mass spectrometers feature a sample injection port that can be opened and closed without tools and a column oven with a light that illuminates the immediate area.
The Thermo Scientific VetDrugs Explorer collection liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry-based solution enables the quantitation required to meet the current regulatory standards of more than 160 veterinary drugs.
When it comes to pathogen testing, processors must choose from a number of processes, as well as whether the work will be done in-house or through a contract laboratory.