Analysis

We provide the support and insight for meeting your analytical needs. 
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Specialist areas include flavours, off-flavours and taints in food, beverages, as well as water and pesticide analyses. You will be provided with a prompt and tailored service including development, troubleshooting, outsourced sample analysis carried out by internationally recognized teams, training, project management and a high quality of reporting. If you are considering the purchase of an analytical system there are a large number of instrument options including:
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  • Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) 
  • High Performance Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)
  • Single quadrupole, ion trap or orbitrap MS
  • Triple quad or ion trap MS/MS
  • Accurate mass or high resolution MS
  • Time of Flight (TOF) or magnetic sector
  • Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS)
Have you considered all the alternatives for target analysis to meet your GC needs? These may include: 
  • Flame Ionization Detector (FID)
  • Electron Capture Detector (ECD)
  • Pulsed Flame Photometric Detector (PFPD) 
Meeting your HPLC requirements may mean upgrading to: 
  • Diode Array Detector (DAD) 
  • Refractive Index (RI)
  • Evaporative Light Scattering Detector (ELSD)
  • Electrochemical Detector (ED) 
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Is there a more cost effective solution? Should you outsource analysis in the short term or commit to capital expenditure now? Independent professional support is available here to help you make the right decisions.  

Outsourcing analysis or upgrading to automated systems can be hugely challenging steps, potentially expensive or lucrative in equal proportions depending on the decisions you make. Do you have the right skills in place to take you to the next level and what are the financial implications? Take advantage of the experience gained from over 20 years of analytical development and a network of internationally respected contacts and collaborators. See our training page ...here

Sensory
How do you relate your sensory findings to chemical analysis results? Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry (GCO) can be used, alongside traditional statistical tools to help to bridge that gap, allowing you to relate the attributes generated by sensory panels to the chemical profile of the samples. This is achieved by having a trained sensory analyst used as the “detector” at a sniffer port installed on the instrument. These peaks can be simultaneously positively identified by mass spectrometry and by reference to authentic standards. If you are developing new products? You will want to see how a modification to your recipes and the introduction of novel formulations or microencapsulated ingredients affects the flavour release profile. Sensory analysis will provide one level of information but breath by breath analysis of flavours released during eating and drinking can be a powerful complementary tool. Get in touch to see how this can help you.
Microscopy
Benefit from a new light microscopy service to provide a visual insight into your products. Imaging using incident or transmitted light with bright field, dark field or polarized light and colour filter effects enables us to capture vivid images of your materials simply and effectively prior to committing to more expensive microscopy analysis. Please call to discuss your requirements.
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