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Global Food Safety Brochure Food SafetyGet Appsyour Notebook Free at www.dionex.com/foodnotebook Related Dionex Applications Literature Dionex has an extensive library of methods and techniques for determining a wide variety of analytes important to the food industry. Below is a selected list of applications covered in this brochure. For more information, please visit www.dionex.com and click on Industrial/Food and Beverages on the sidebar under Applications. All of the literature below can be found by clicking Literature and Manuals under Training and Corporate Headquarters Support on the sidebar, or by contacting your local Dionex representative. Dionex Corporation 1228 Titan Way P.O. Box 3603 FOOD SAFETY LITERATURE Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3603 Tel: (408) 737-0700 Contaminant Matrix Resource Fax: (408) 730-9403 Fried and baked AN 409: Fast Determination of Acrylamide in Food Samples Using Accelerated Acrylamide foods Solvent Extraction Followed by Ion Chromatography with UV or MS Detection Worldwide Sales and Service Adulterants Fruit juice AN 82: Analysis of Fruit Juice Adulterated with Medium Invert Sugar from Beets North America U.S./Canada (847) 295-7500 Poster: Fast and Effective Determination of Aflatoxins in Grains or Food Using Aflatoxins Grains and seeds Accelerated Solvent Extraction Followed by HPLC South America Liquid food AN 165: Determination of Benzoate in Liquid Food Products by Reagent-Free Brazil (55) 11 3731 5140 Benzoate products Ion Chromatography Europe AN 182: Determination of Biogenic Amines in Alcoholic Beverages by Ion Austria (43) 1 616 51 25 Biogenic amines Beer, wine Chromatography with Suppressed Conductivity and Integrated Pulsed Benelux (31) 20 683 9768 Amperometric Detection (32) 3 353 42 94 AN 183: Determination of Biogenic Amines in Fermented and Non-Fermented Denmark (45) 36 36 90 90 Biogenic amines Meats, cheese Foods Using Ion Chromatography with Suppressed Conductivity and Integrated France (33) 1 39 30 01 10 Pulsed Amperometric Detection Germany (49) 6126 991 0 AU 162: Determination of Biogenic Amines in Fruit, Vegetables, and Chocolate Ireland (353) 1 644 0064 Fruit, vegetables, Biogenic amines Using Ion Chromatography with Suppressed Conductivity and Integrated Pulsed Italy (39) 02 51 62 1267 and chocolate Amperometric Detection Sweden (46) 8 473 3380 Iodide Milk AN 37: Determination of Iodide in Milk Products Switzerland (41) 62 205 9966 United Kingdom (44) 1276 691722 AN 221: Rapid Determination of Melamine in Liquid Milk and Milk Powder by Melamine Milk HPLC on the Acclaim Mixed-Mode WCX-1 Column with UV Detection Asia Pacific AN 112: Determination of Nitrate and Nitrite in Meat Using High-Performance Australia (61) 2 9420 5233 Nitrate and nitrite Meats Ion-Exchange Chromatography China (852) 2428 3282 Organochlorine AN 349: Rapid Determination of Organochlorine Pesticides in Animal Feed India (91) 22 2764 2735 Animal feed pesticides Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction Japan (81) 6 6885 1213 Korea (82) 2 2653 2580 Organophosphorus AN 343: Determination of Pesticides in Large-Volume Food Samples Using Fruits, vegetables pesticides Accelerated Solvent Extraction Singapore (65) 6289 1190 Taiwan (886) 2 8751 6655 AN 356: Determination of Perchlorate in Vegetation Samples Using Accelerated Perchlorate Vegetation Solvent Extraction and Ion Chromatography Fruits, vegetables, Pesticides AN 332: Accelerated Solvent Extraction of Pesticide Residues in Food Products grains www.dionex.com AN 196: Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Edible Polycyclic aromatic Edible oils Oils by Donor-Acceptor Complex Chromatography (DACC)-HPLC with hydrocarbons (PAHs) Fluorescence Detection Dried fruit, wine, AN 54: Determination of Sulfite in Food and Beverages by Ion-Exclusion Sulfite Dionex products are designed, bottled juices Chromatography with Pulsed Amperometric Detection developed, and manufactured AN 353: Rapid Determination of Sulfonamide Residues in Animal Tissue and under an ISO 9001 Quality System. Sulfonamides Animal tissue Infant Food Containing Animal Products Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction Grains (wheat AN 350: Extraction of Zearalenone from Wheat and Corn by Accelerated Zearalenone and corn) Solvent Extraction MSQ and MSQ Plus are trademarks of Thermo Fisher Scientific. All All TN 208: Methods Optimization in Accelerated Solvent Extraction Venture is a trademark of W. R. Grace and Co. TN 209: Accelerated Solvent Extraction Sample Preparation Techniques for Food DCMSLink, Reagent-Free, and RFIC are trademarks and Acclaim, ASE, ASRS, All All and Animal Feed Samples AutoSuppression, AutoTrace, CarboPac, Chromeleon, CSRS, IonPac, and UltiMate are registered trademarks of Dionex Corporation. TN 210: Accelerated Solvent Extraction Techniques for In-Line Selective All All Removal of Interferences © 2009 Dionex Corporation LPN 2135-02 PDF 08/09 Printed in U.S.A. Passion. Power. Productivity. Global Supply, Local Concern Increasingly global food supply chains have raised concerns about food safety. Products are grown and processed in widely differing environments under a variety of regulatory frameworks, travel thousands of miles, are kept in various storage conditions, experience temperature fluctuations that may affect shelf life, and are handled by many different people. At any point in this process, products can be contaminated or may become unfit for consumption. Contaminants may originate from agricultural Food contaminant analysis poses several Fortunately, with Dionex technology many of sources, such as pesticides, animal growth challenges. Usually, the contaminant must be these food contaminants can be extracted hormones, or antibiotics; environmental isolated from the food matrix before it can be and identified reliably and quickly before they sources, such as water and air pollutants; analyzed. The proper separation technique, reach the table. Dionex has worked with or from food production processes, via medium, and mobile phase/gradient must industry and regulatory agencies to develop contamination or adulteration. Food be identified, depending on the suspected extraction, sample preparation, IC, and HPLC contaminants may cause acute effects contaminants. Finally, a detection method solutions for the determination of a broad ranging from mild rash, light headache, or sensitive to the suspected contaminants range of food contaminants. vomiting to more serious diseases like cancer, must be used. auto-immune diseases, thyroid problems, and even death. Health effects of exposure to contaminants may become apparent only after years of prolonged exposure. page 2 Food SafetyGet Appsyour Notebook Free at www.dionex.com/foodnotebook System Solutions Solvent and Solid-Phase Extraction Ion Chromatography Liquid Chromatography Solid food samples (e.g., grains, fruits, Since the development of ion chromatography The Dionex UltiMate® 3000 series of liquid vegetables, meats) require sample (IC) analysis over 30 years ago, Dionex has chromatography systems are ideal for preparation before analysis. Common pioneered the development of IC systems, the analysis of organic contaminants, for extraction techniques, such as Soxhlet and media, and applications. Whether you are example polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons sonication, are slow and use high solvent running a few food samples for process or pesticides. Choose from a wide variety volumes. Additional cleanup steps are often development or have a heavy workload of of modules, detectors, and configurations to required after these extraction techniques, samples for QC and regulatory compliance, adapt the instrument to your applications and adding additional time, labor, and cost. whether your analytical task is simple or needs. From semipreparative to analytical complex, Dionex has the right system for you. to nano scale applications, and from basic Dionex Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE®) systems to the Rapid Separation LC systems systems use elevated temperatures and • Starter line and basic systems for straightforward and repetitive analyses for UHPLC, there is a system solution that is pressures to extract analytes quickly and right for you. efficiently. Adsorbants mixed with the • Reagent-Free™ systems reduce eluent and sample or placed in the extraction cell regenerant preparation • Excellent retention time precision, detector automate cleanup of interferents, further • Dual systems allow double throughput, sensitivity, linearity, and drift reducing time, effort, and solvent usage. simultaneous analysis, and complex • x2 dual systems for multidimensional The AutoTrace® SPE instrument automates methods separations extraction and concentration of liquid • Suppressed conductivity, pulsed • Rapid Separation LC (RSLC) systems for samples. amperometry, UV-vis, fluorescence, and fast, high flow-rate, ultrahigh-pressure MS detectors applications • Extraction of sample sizes from 1 to 100 g in minutes • Ion-exchange, ion-exclusion, carbohydrate, • Biocompatible systems available for and amino acid columns sensitive samples • Automation reduces operator time and labor • Concentrator, polishing, and trap columns • Reversed-phase, ion-exchange, for on-line sample preparation and trace mixed-mode (HILIC, reversed-phase, • Dramatic solvent reduction analyte determination and ion-exchange combinations), and • Handles acidic and alkaline matrices • Integrated control and data processing monolith columns ® • Wide range of applications with Chromeleon software • Diode array, multi-wavelength, • Approved for use by the US EPA fluorescence, and MS detectors
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