Dr. Manfred Spraul - Director Business and Applied NMR method development - and Léa Heintz - Business Development and Product Management Applied NMR. Every year consumers are confronted with food scandals in the media, damaging public trust in the integrity of food manufacturers. Food Quality and Safety is now a highly important issue for manufacturers, retailers, government control agencies and consumer protection organizations. The webinar will explain how the NMR Wine Screener solution, can help in safely detecting fraudulent labeling of origin, grape variety, vintage year and dilution, in an easy way, using statistical models of comprehensive authentic sample collections. Also parameters and examples of typical results obtained will be presented.
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The popularity of Greek yogurt has spurred dairy processors to look at product formulations for yogurt, cottage cheese and other dairy foods. In this free hour-long webinar, Professor Phillip S. Tong from the Dairy Products Technology Center at California Polytechnic State University and others discuss:
This webinar will demonstrate the uses of FT-NIR spectroscopy in a wide range of applications for chemicals and polymers. Traditional methods such as Karl Fischer, Titration, Loss on Drying and other wet chemical analysis can be significantly reduced with the use of FT-NIR ad well a Chromatographic methods, which takes long periods of time and involves costly consumables (solvents, carrier gas, columns, etc.). FT-NIR requires no sample preparation or expensive consumables. Analysis is carried out in a matter of seconds by routine users/operators in everyday applications.
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Infrared and Raman spectroscopy are ideal tools for characterizing unknown materials. The high degree of specificity of spectroscopic analysis makes it ideal for reverse engineering, quality control, defect analysis, and other applications. Infrared and Raman microanalysis is conducted when samples or areas of interest are smaller than approximately the width of a single hair fiber. In this web seminar, the spectroscopic microanalysis of polymer-based products will be discussed with emphasis on what level of detection can be achieved as well as what is entailed in performing the analysis. In particular, we will discuss:
There are two ways to make Greek Yogurt:
straining the whey out of the cultured product to make it thicker, or making the milk thicker by ultrafiltration to remove water, or using condensed milk or milk powder to enrich the milk. Typical liquid milk analyzers are only capable of analyzing enriched or ultrafiltration milk samples. They can't do the cultured milk/strained type of Greek yogurt. With the Multiple Purpose Analyzer - Dairy (MPA-D) Bruker offers a solution for both products: enriched or ultrafiltration milk can go through the liquid sampling module (LSM). The final product is analyzed on the same instrument by reflectance, placing the sample in a glass Petri Dish. Bruker's Tango (single channel FT-NIR analyzer with touch-screen interface) is an ideal solution where the analysis of the feedstock is in a separate facility, and a dedicated instrument is required for final product analysis. Even Yogurt with added fruit fruits can be analyzed in reflectance with either the Tango or MPA-D FT-NIR systems. With the MPA-D, Bruker Optics has designed a single instrument that analyzes samples from every phase of your manufacturing process: incoming raw materials like raw milk, condensed milk, milk powders, and whey products, in-process testing of vat milk, curds, and cultured milk, and final products, and by-products such as whey, condensed whey and whey derivatives. MPA-D replaces multiple instruments in the Dairy lab, reducing operator training, increasing available bench space, and significantly reducing the total cost of ownership for your Dairy processing operation.
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The ability to rapidly analyze incoming raw materials, provide timely in-process testing results and final product quality measurements, is imperative to profitable operation in a modern dairy plant. Today, many labs are stuck in an inefficient cycle, employing one instrument to measure protein, fat and solids for incoming milk or whey, another for in-process testing of liquids, slurries and solids and yet another set of tests for the assessment of product quality parameters. Each of these instruments requires some combination of on-going maintenance, chemicals/solvents, and multiple tests performed by a trained technician.
This webinar will introduce a new solution: The Bruker Dairy Analyzer. Lightning fast analysis, based on modern infrared technology and an integrated Liquid Sampling Module (LSM) will dramatically improve your efficiency. The LSM employs automated sampling and homogenization (if required), allowing for streamlined analysis of many dairy products including, but not limited to: Raw, skim, processed and condensed milk, cream, and even ice cream with high total solid and fat concentrations.
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What if we could monitor the oil content in seeds, on dry-matter basis, as soon as the truck arrives at the receiving dock, and we can determine the price to pay with confidence? You could avoid paying for moisture, and your supplier gets a fair price. What if we could monitor how efficiently your oil extraction process working by monitoring the oil and moisture content in seeds cakes, during extraction, in just few seconds, without any sample prep and in an extremely precise manner? You could make corrections to your process parameters real-time and avoid unnecessary losses. What if you could precisely measure the oil, moisture and protein content in the seeds cakes before you dispatch them to feed manufacturing plants? You could determine the appropriate price for the nutrition content of the feed raw materials you are selling. All of these are doable, without any sample prep, using a bench-top, easy-to-use Bruker TD-NMR instrument, while following official methods like AOCS, ISO, USDA GIPSA. Better yet, calibration of this instrument take less than 5 minutes and stays stable for years and years. During the webinar, participants will learn how TD-NMR works, its capabilities with respect to oil-seed industry needs, and listen to case studies of customers who have solved their own technical challenges with minispec. Discover how you can determine incoming-seed pricing, optimize extraction processes, and catch flaws 'real-time' in on-going process or during development phase, before they become costly to fix. Q&A session at the end of the webinar.
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The production of any product is a chain of different engineering processes - from the raw materials, over preparing and production steps until the finished product is ready for delivery. Only an error-free progression through each of the single steps guarantees a product of sufficient and constant quality. The analytical control of all raw materials, intermediates and the products is a major issue in all kind of industries. Often classical off-line analysis methods such as HPLC, GC or wet chemistry methods are used. However, this comes with disadvantages; the most significant of these is the high expenditure of time and cost for the analysis. For most, even a laboratory with skilled personal is required.
Quality control during the process
In the Dairy industry the production capacity of plants is still increasing dramatically and therefore the process control becomes more and more important. In addition the quality demands are increasing while the margins are still low. Here the quality is not only important for the customer but even to avoid losses by bad quality batches. There are many applications like
FT-NIR analyzers scan in seconds without sample preparation making it possible to literally test any sample any time. Analytical protocols start with qualifying suppliers and verifying that the incoming raw materials comply with specifications to ensure manufacturers are getting what they pay for. In addition, FT-NIR can screen for unexpected presence of synthetic adulterants in the incoming ingredients as a quality firewall to check that manufacturers are not getting 'more' than they pay for. Certificates of Analysis (COA) report on only a few parameters whereas the FT-NIR spectral pattern can be used to monitor quality and consistency on a lot to lot basis.
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The rational economic use of feedstuffs to produce poultry, fish, meat and milk has evolved from small farm operations to large scale industrial production. Today, large scale highly capitalized feed operations are under increasing stress as feed ingredient price escalation and volatility add substantial operating risk. The Matrix F FT-NIR Feed Analyzer can be used to protect operating margins by more reliably and economically blending feed ingredients to meet animal requirements. Ingredient buyers, nutritionists, and veterinarians can now access a tool for better control.
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Dr. Kimberly L. Colson - Business Development Manager and Dr. Jimmy Yuk - Research Scientist, Business Development, Bruker BioSpin
The global nutraceutical market was estimated to be $140.1 billion US dollars in 2010. Concerns have arisen over the increasing cases of adulterated products in the market which threaten consumer health and the continual growth for the industry. You are invited to attend our 45-minute on-line event, where you will learn how NMR can help ensure dietary supplements meet guidelines in safety and manufacturing compliance.
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