In his current role as a Principal Market Development Manager, Euan is responsible for understanding and supporting the routine testing requirements of the global food industry. He works with customers to understand their business and analytical challenges and helps address them with Waters technologies.
As the world looks to provide enough protein to an increasing global population, cultivated meat and dairy products could be one sustainable solution.
A requirement for many food processors is to understand the levels of acrylamide in their products and to reduce those levels if possible. Acrylamide is a process contaminant that forms in starchy foods when they are baked, roasted, or fried. A reaction between an amino acid and reducing sugars, known as a Maillard reaction, is…
As the demand for lactose-free and lactose-reduced products increases, we discuss the use of LC and LC-MS to test the level of lactose in products.
Driven by the global COVID-19 pandemic, consumers increasingly seek food and beverages that support immunity and health. As a result, the global functional beverages market is expected to grow to $158 billion in 2023. Waters HPLC and UPLC solutions enable reliable, accurate, and efficient testing methods to ensure that finished beverage products meet manufacturers’ specifications and nutritional label claims.
When developing a method for the routine multiresidue analysis of pesticides in food commodities there are several factors that need to be considered when selecting which liquid chromatography (LC) column to use. The requirements include: Good retention for a range of physiochemical properties (polar, non-polar, base, acid). Moderate to high resolution (peak capacity). Sample extracts…
In the various pieces of collateral we have published at Waters on highly polar pesticides, such as glyphosate or chlormequat, one of the main parameters we discuss is retention. But what do we mean by the word retention? The retention time (RT) is the time between the start of an injection to the emergence of…