10th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis

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Sep 06, 2022 - Sep 09, 2022

Don Giovanni Hotel Prague | Prague, Czech Republic

Discover how you can advance and enhance your food safety workflows.

If you didn’t get a chance to attend RAFA in Prague, or for those of you who would like additional information, we’ve uploaded our posters and presentations for your review from the comfort of your desk.

Let us know if you would like to talk to one of our experts about your analysis challenges, or to find out more about our instruments.

Seminars
Poster Presentations

Sep 7, 2022 | 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
Room Don Giovanni 2

Implementing new GC-MS and LC-MS technologies to stay ahead with your food safety analysis from pesticides to PFAS and microplastics

Dominic Roberts, Product Marketing Manager GC and GC-MS, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Frans Schoutsen, Sales Support Specialist LSMS, Thermo Fisher Scientific

The first half of the presentation will focus on the capabilities of the new GC-MS/MS system from Thermo Scientific, which was launched in March 2022. The system design was based on direct customer feedback in order to overcome challenges faced by analytical testing laboratories. The system provides excellent sensitivity to meet the strictest regulatory limits and has modular GC design for increased flexibility in system configuration, while including unique maintenance options and compatibility with online automated clean-up to minimize instrument downtime and increase sample throughput. An overview of applications on the new GC-MS/MS with data examples will be presented, including the analysis of pesticides in baby food and the determination of ethylene oxide in food. We will also explore how pyrolysis -GC high resolution accurate mass MS can overcome challenges associated with the analysis of microplastics in food.

The second part of the lecture will focus on the development of a sensitive PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) screening and quantitation method in pork muscle meat utilizing LC-Orbitrap and a novel cloud hosted application called myLibrary Enterprise, which allows users to easily extract spectra and create fit-for-purpose MS/MS spectral libraries. Curation is done directly in the application, and the final library can be exported for use directly in Thermo Scientific TraceFinder Software with mzVault. Details of the method will also be presented in terms of calibration, limits of quantitation, recovery, and identification according to SANTE guidance and MS/MS spectral matching.

At the conclusion of the presentation our application experts will answer any questions in a live Q and A.

Implementing new GC-MS and LC-MS technologies to stay ahead with your food safety analysis from pesticides to PFAS and microplastics

Sep 8, 2022 | 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
Room Don Giovanni 2

Elemental and isotopic analysis: solutions for food authenticity, quality and safety

Niel Williams, Sales Representative Inorganic Mass Spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific

With the Thermo Scientific portfolio for elemental and isotope analysis, you can address QC, authenticity, origin and safety of your samples through scalable, software-driven workflows. Dr. Niel Williams will present how elemental and isotope analysis deliver QC and integrity answers to variety of feed and food samples such as crops, sugar, meat, rice, juice, tea or dairy. Dr. Sukanya Sengupta will provide insights into the characterization and monitoring of both nutrient elements and toxic trace metals in different kinds of food samples using ICP-MS techniques that allow high sensitivity analysis for quantifying even the smallest amounts of toxic metals like lead, mercury etc. in the foods. It will be demonstrated how laboratories can achieve this easily in an efficient manner using the developed method for reliable and robust analysis of hundreds of samples daily.

Learn more about integrating elemental and isotopic solutions in your analysis.

Elemental and isotopic analysis: solutions for food authenticity, quality and safety

Sep 8, 2022 | 14.45 - 15:30 CEST
Room Don Giovanni 2

Ways to master your pooling testing approach for food pathogen testing

Sandra Fréville, Marketing Tactical Manager

Regulation transfers the responsibility for the food safety and quality to the food producers. They must establish and develop HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System) and define the appropriate sampling plan. Pathogen monitoring programs play a crucial role in this control plan and efficiency of pathogen screening can be significantly improved with sample pooling approach. This enables to optimize the number of tests, get the right balance between a large-scale sampling plan and the required testing resources, and of course better manage the risk. The ISO 16140-4:2020 standard was recently amended to enable in-house validation of sample pooling together with the selected analytical methods. In this seminar, Sandra Fréville, Tactical Marketing Manager in Thermo Scientific Microbiology, will explain the key point of the amendment of the ISO 16140-4:2020 and will present case studies and practical examples of implemented pooling methods with the Thermo Scientific SureTect Salmonella Species PCR Assay.

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Seminars

Sep 7, 2022 | 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
Room Don Giovanni 2

Implementing new GC-MS and LC-MS technologies to stay ahead with your food safety analysis from pesticides to PFAS and microplastics

Dominic Roberts, Product Marketing Manager GC and GC-MS, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Frans Schoutsen, Sales Support Specialist LSMS, Thermo Fisher Scientific

At the conclusion of the presentation our application experts will answer any questions in a live Q and A.

Implementing new GC-MS and LC-MS technologies to stay ahead with your food safety analysis from pesticides to PFAS and microplastics

Sep 8, 2022 | 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
Room Don Giovanni 2

Elemental and isotopic analysis: solutions for food authenticity, quality and safety

Learn more about integrating elemental and isotopic solutions in your analysis.

Elemental and isotopic analysis: solutions for food authenticity, quality and safety

Sep 8, 2022 | 14.45 - 15:30 CEST
Room Don Giovanni 2

Ways to master your pooling testing approach for food pathogen testing

Sandra Fréville, Marketing Tactical Manager

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Previous years

RAFA 2019

Trust your foods are all they should be

Join us at the 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA) in Prague, Czech Republic, 5-8 November 2019. Discover how you can advance and enhance your food safety workflows. Bring your questions to our experts at booth #8.

Recent developments in the determination of trace element contaminants, and residue of polar pesticides in food

Topic 1: Fast and Comprehensive Analysis of Elemental Contaminants in Food using ICP-OES and ICP-MS Speaker: Matthew Cassap

Different chromatographic techniques such as ion chromatography (IC) can be hyphenated easily to element selective detectors ICP-MS. In this presentation, comprehensive and fast solutions for the analysis of trace elements in food samples are highlighted, including the use of ICP-OES and interference free detection at low levels using ICP-MS.

Topic 2: Recent developments in integrated workflows for the multi-residue analysis of polar anionic pesticides and metabolites Speaker: Richard Fussell

This presentation will provide the latest information on the development of the Thermo Scientific Anionic Pesticides Explorer: a new validated and integrated IC-MS/MS based workflow for the robust, sensitive and reliable routine determination of polar anionic pesticides and metabolites at low µg/kg levels in a single run. The workflow uses a modified QuPPe extraction with solid phase extraction clean-up.

Using cutting-edge mass spectrometry technologies to address new food safety challenges

Topic 1: EU compliant routine quantitative dioxin, dioxin-like compounds by GC-MS/MS with advanced electron ionisation source Speaker: Adam Ladak

Regulatory changes in Europe in 2014 allowed GC-MS/MS to be used for confirmatory analysis and control of maximum levels (MLs) and action levels (ALs) of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in food and feed samples. In this study, the performance of a Thermo ScientificTM TSQTM 9000 GC-MS/MS system equipped with an Advanced Electron Ionization (AEI) source was evaluated for the routine analysis of dioxins, dioxin-like PCBs and non-dioxin-like PCBs in solvent standards and food/feedstuff samples.

Topic 2: Recent developments in the analysis of pesticides using LC- and GC-Orbitrap Speaker: Richard Fussell

This presentation will provide an update on the use of Thermo Scientific Orbitrap High Resolution Accurate Mass (HRAM) mass spectrometers for the targeted and screening analysis of GC and LC, amenable pesticides and contaminants in food.

RAFA 2017

Trust your foods are all they should be

Welcome to the On Demand highlights from the 8th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA) held in Prague, Czech Republic, 7-10 November 2017. From the comfort of your desk, watch videos of seminars and interviews from RAFA 2017.

Join the experience and hear expert testimonials and update your knowledge of food safety analysis.

Register today and get access to our featured presentations!

A Comprehensive Multi-Class Veterinary Medicines Method Using A New Best-In-Class Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
Ed George – Thermo Fisher Scientific

Applications of the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive Focus Quadrupole – Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine
David Borts - Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine

GC-Orbitrap MS: A New Way to Simultaneously Determine Different Halogenated POPs?
Kerstin Kraetschmer, European Union Reference Laboratory for Dioxins and PCBs in Feed and Food, Freiburg, Germany

SweEt Analyses in Non-Targeted and Targeted Mode with High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Susanne Ekroth - Chemistry Division NFA Sweden

Food Integrity with Isotope Fingerprints: Unlocking the Truth
Chris Brodie – Thermo Fisher Scientific

Stable Isotope Analysis to Detect Food Adulteration and Fraud
Simon Kelly - Food and Environmental Protection Laboratory & Section Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture

Featured videos

Ed George presents how the new Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantis and TSQ Altis Triple Quadrupole MS Systems can be used in veterinary medicines methodology.

Complete workflow solution for the analysis of 330 pesticide residues by liquid chromatography high resolution mass spectrometry is demonstrated.

DualData XL Module of the Thermo Scientific DFS Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS is designed for doubled performance throughput for Dioxins and POPs analysis.

Isotope fingerprints analyzed by GC-IRMS enable to differentiate tequila purity and can inform on adulteration and product mislabeling.

Isotope fingerprints are powerful tools to determine authenticity, country of origin and potential frauds for food and beverage samples.

Susanne Ekroth will present you the workflow for SweEt with around 550 pesticide analytes in targeted mode with triple quadrupole techniques as well as the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive Focus Orbitrap for LC-amendable analytes.

David Borts presents the Q Exactive Focus mass spectrometer system – high-resolution accurate-mass (HRAM) capabilities.

Kestin Kratschmer will discuss results for mixtures of different CP and PCB standards as well as a comparison of food samples that were analysed with and without separation of co-eluting POPs during sample clean-up.

Isotope fingerprints analyzed by LC-IRMS enable to identify if the sugar in the honey is natural or was artificially added.

Oxygen isotope fingerprint analyzed with the Thermo Scientific GasBench II System allows the identification of water addition in commercial wine.

Food and beverage have a fingerprint, a unique chemical signature. To visualize this fingerprint, IRMS can be used identifying origin and authenticity.

Hydrogen and oxygen isotope fingerprints are powerful tools to determine the country of origin of coffee beans and assess product label claims.

The poster shows the comparison of the N/Protein data obtained with the Thermo Scientific FlashSmartEA using argon as carrier gas to the data obtained using helium.

Protein determination is used for the evaluation of food and animal feed quality and potentially for the uncovering of potential mislabeling cases.

RAFA 2015

Welcome to the on-demand highlights from the Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA) 2015 held in Prague, Czech Republic. Watch videos of poster presentations, view and read posters presented at the exhibition by experts in food analysis and download for future reference. Join the experience to hear expert testimonials and update your knowledge of food safety analysis. Come and join us in 2017 at the 8th International Symposium.

Videos

Article

Attaining Accurate Authentication

by Prof. Dr. Jana Hajšlová (UCT Prague), Chairwoman of Symposium

As fraudsters become increasingly knowledgeable and adept, authentication of food and beverages becomes more and more challenging. I was keen to see if GC- Orbitrap technology represented a new tool in the defense of food safety and quality – and Scotland’s centuries-old whisky industry.