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Fig. 1. Porcine Testing Kits are aimed at the €485b/y Halal food market. The new solution will make it easier, faster and more cost effective to provide confidence in the integrity and authenticity of food products for global markets where Halal certification is required.
Safety focus for food and drink lab analysis
Health, safety and even religious demands are ensuring that food and drink laboratory analysts need the very latest in detection technologies. Sean Ottewell reports.
La santé, la sécurité et même les exigences religieuses veillent à ce que les analystes de laboratoire examinant les aliments et boissons aient besoin des technologies de détection les plus récentes. Selon Sean Ottewell.
Aufgrund von Anforderungen hinsichtlich Gesundheit, Sicherheit und sogar Religion müssen bei der Laboranalyse von Lebensmitteln und Getränken stets die allerneuesten Nachweistechnologien zur Verfügung stehen. Sean Ottewell berichtet.
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erkinElmer has announced the results of collaborations with Fukushima University
and the University of Tokyo to develop new radiation detection tests in support of ongoing nuclear crisis response efforts in Japan.
Immediately after last March’s earthquake that triggered the radiation contamination event in Fukushima prefecture, PerkinElmer assembled and deployed a loan package of sophisticated radiometric detection instruments and expertise for use by front-line researchers in Japan.
Te company provided research teams with critical application knowledge and technology platforms including liquid scintillation counters, gamma ray counters
and mass spectrometers for measuring uranium, plutonium, iodine, caesium and strontium isotopes in water supplies, fish, vegetables and other produce in affected areas.
Radioactive comtamination In response to concerns from the local community of Fukushima prefecture, Fukushima University researchers developed the first map of radioactive contamination immediately after the accident. PerkinElmer worked closely with Yoshitaka Takagai, associate professor of analytical chemistry in the division of environmental system management, faculty of symbiotic systems science, Fukushima University.
He said: “Our research team took the initiative to build the first map of radioactive fallout in response to urgent local anxiety and demands for assurance, as well as taking on the additional vital task of detecting soil contamination to guide clean-up
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