Environmental and Food Analysis Solutions

Presenting the EFOX Mass Spectrometry series purpose-built for environmental and food testing

Introducing the EFOX (Environmental and Food Organic Xenobiotics) series, a new generation of mass spectrometry solutions, purpose-built for the evolving challenges of food safety and environmental testing. Using the proven power of triple-quadrupole and Thermo Scientific Orbitrap high-resolution technologies, the EFOX series helps deliver confident, compliant, and efficient analyses across a wide range of contaminants and complex sample matrices.

Whether the goal is rapid, targeted quantitation, comprehensive screening, or full-scale regulatory compliance, the EFOX series provides the robustness, sensitivity, and data quality needed to safeguard public health and protect the environment. Designed for real-world throughput and operational simplicity, the EFOX series empowers laboratories to achieve high-confidence results today and futureproofs them against tomorrow’s challenges, with simplified, streamlined workflows and scalable performance.

Pairing the workflow with a Thermo Scientific Vanquish Duo UHPLC System further boosts flexibility, confidence and productivity by enabling parallel or overlapping chromatographic runs using different column chemistries as well as optimized method parameters and mobile phases.

With seamless integration into Thermo Scientific Chromeleon Chromatography Data System, the EFOX series further enhances productivity and data integrity, supporting smooth, compliant operation from acquisition to reporting.

Introducing the Orbitrap Exploris EFOX Mass Detector for accurate and efficient testing

The Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Exploris Mass Detector empowers the field of environmental and food safety testing. This high-resolution accurate mass (HRAM) system is designed to satisfy industry demands with the ability to perform targeted analysis and precise quantitation, suspect screening, and sample profiling.

Simplifying high-resolution detection for safer food and a cleaner environment

The Orbitrap Exploris EFOX Mass Detector leverages full-scan, high-resolution mass spectrometry acquisition to enable retrospective data analysis, allowing new compounds of interest to be added without method redevelopment or sample reinjection—unlike conventional systems that require time-consuming MS/MS development, optimization, and retention time adjustments.

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Introducing the TSQ Altis Plus EFOX Edition Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer for ultimate selectivity and confidence in compliance

Bringing ultimate triple-quadrupole selectivity to more labs, the Thermo Scientific TSQ Altis Plus EFOX Edition Triple Quadrupole MS extends the power of routine MS² into food and environmental testing environments. Leveraging the proven performance of the TSQ Series, it helps deliver exceptional robustness, consistency, and high-confidence results for laboratories committed to precision and productivity.

Ultimate triple quadrupole selectivity and confidence in compliance

Designed with application-relevant robustness, it excels at analyzing challenging matrices, providing the confidence needed for compliance-driven laboratories. With high-speed MS² data that aligns with global regulatory standards, the TSQ Altis Plus EFOX Edition MS helps ensure traceable, defensible results for targeted quantitation. Its simplified efficiency accelerates turnaround time through streamlined operation, intelligent software integration, and seamless data connectivity.

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Complexities in environmental testing

Environmental testing laboratories operate under constant pressure to rapidly and accurately detect contaminants across diverse ecosystems — spanning different types of water, leachates, soils, and sediments. Each matrix presents unique analytical challenges, with complex background interferences and the need to quantify trace-level pollutants that directly impact public health and environmental safety. These demands are intensified by stringent regulatory standards, requiring defensible results and high-confidence detection of regulated and emerging contaminants, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), pharmaceuticals, extractables, and leachables.

Traditional testing solutions often struggle to keep pace, relying on long method development cycles, labor-intensive workflows, and time-consuming data review, which delay reporting and hinder timely decision-making. EFOX series instruments address these challenges head-on, providing robust, high-performance mass spectrometry solutions that simplify complexity, accelerate throughput, and deliver reliable, compliance-ready results.

Challenges in food safety testing

Food safety testing laboratories work under significant pressure to ensure that food products are free from harmful contaminants — including (polar) pesticides, mycotoxins, veterinary drugs, and other chemical residues. They must accurately quantify trace contaminants across highly diverse and often complex food matrices, from produce and grains to dairy, meat, beverages, and processed foods. The challenge is intensified by strict global food safety regulations, which demand defensible, high-confidence results to protect consumer health and uphold trust in the food supply chain.

Traditional analytical solutions may struggle to keep pace with evolving testing needs, relying on lengthy method development, extensive sample preparation, and time-consuming data review that slow throughput and delay critical decisions. The EFOX series instruments are purpose-built to address these challenges with robust, high-performance mass spectrometry that simplifies complexity, accelerates turnaround time, and helps deliver reliable, compliance-ready results for modern food safety laboratories.

Detecting organic contaminants

Detecting organic contaminants, pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, pesticides, and other emerging pollutants demands analytical power that can help deliver confident results across complex matrices. The EFOX series instruments bring together the strengths of targeted and high-resolution mass spectrometry to meet this challenge head-on. The TSQ Altis Plus EFOX Edition MS provides fast, sensitive, and rugged quantitation for routine monitoring at trace levels, while the Orbitrap Exploris EFOX Mass Detector extends analytical capabilities with exceptional high-resolution accuracy for broad suspect screening and retrospective data analysis. Together, they enable laboratories to stay ahead of evolving regulatory requirements, reveal emerging contaminants, and generate defensible results with speed and assurance — empowering smarter decisions that protect environmental and public health.

The EFOX series empowers labs by delivering efficient, reliable results that help ensure safer food, cleaner environments, and increased confidence in regulatory compliance.

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