Shimadzu at 2026 AOAC Annual Meeting & Exposition

Join Shimadzu at the 2026 AOAC Annual Meeting & Exposition, taking place August 29 – September 2, 2026, at the JW Marriott Indianapolis. As a leader in analytical instrumentation, Shimadzu is dedicated to supporting global food safety, laboratory quality, and regulatory compliance.

At this premier food science event, we will showcase our cutting-edge solutions for food testing, contaminant analysis, heavy metals detection, pesticide residue monitoring, and PFAS analysis. Explore our vendor presentations, scientific sessions, and research posters featuring advanced technologies including LC-MS, GC-MS/MS, ICP-MS, and EDXRF.

Featured Presentations

• Heavy Metals Analysis
  • Food, supplements, and infant nutrition using EDXRF and ICP technologies.
• Sports Nutrition
  • An advanced LC-MS method for measuring creatine and creatinine.
• PFAS Analysis
  • Detection and quantification of volatile PFAS compounds in beverages using HS-SPME-GCMS.

Vendor Presentation

Analysis of Metals in Food Additives, Infant Formulas, Supplements, and More  

• Monday, August 31, 2026    

Are you facing challenges with inorganic analysis? We would like to introduce two instruments. Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) enables rapid, non-destructive analysis of minerals and heavy metals in foods, raw materials, and food additives with minimal sample preparation. While it may not have been widely used in the food industry until now, we will showcase the new possibilities offered by EDXRF. Another one is Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) analysis. We will discuss the latest analytical applications, including analyses that combine ICP with LC.

Symposium Participation

Symposium title: Analytical Innovations in Food, Supplements, and Infant Nutrition: Ensuring Authenticity and Stability    

Presentation title: A Comprehensive Dilute-and-Shoot Method for Creatine and Creatinine in Commercial Available Sports Nutrition Products Using a Single Quadrupole LCMS

• Tuesday, September 1, 2026    

Creatine is an endogenous biomolecule which has become an increasingly popular supplement in sports nutrition markets. The hydrolysis of creatine to the waste product, creatinine, is a well understood endogenous mechanism, and occurs in food and aqueous matrices. Quantitation of both creatine and creatinine in commercially available products is useful for analytical characterization of commercially available products and their shelf life. A simple dilute-and-shoot and high-performance liquid chromatography-single quadrupole mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS) method was developed to analyze creatine and creatinine in various commercially available creatine products including a chewable tablet, gummy, pill, powder, and ready-to-drink (RTD) beverage.

Symposium title: From Packaging to Product: Following PFAS through Food Production Pathways    

Presentation title: Analysis of Bottled and Canned Beverages for Volatile PFAS by HS-SPME-GCMS

• Wednesday, September 2, 2026    

PFAS is an increasing concern in food, beverages, and packaging, as volatile PFAS can migrate from coated materials or contaminated ingredients. This study describes a headspace SPME GC/MS/MS method for analyzing six classes of volatile PFAS (PFIs, FTIs, FTACs, FTMACs, FTOHs, and FASAs) not commonly included in existing food testing methods. The method was evaluated across a range of complex matrices, including water, juices, and beer, using a simplified sample preparation workflow designed to minimize matrix effects across varying sample complexities. We invite you to join this presentation as we discussed the methods capability of detecting and quantifying volatile PFAS with confidence, even in challenging sample matrices.

Posters 

Food Contact Materials (FCM)

• Simultaneous Analysis of Eight Bisphenols in Food Storage Containers Using a Liquid chromatography–Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry

Pesticide residue

• Residual pesticides analysis in Annatto extract using GC-MS/MS

Heavy Metals

• Sensitive and Rapid Analysis of Inorganic Arsenic in Food and Animal Feed
• Samples Using LC-ICP-MS
• Analysis of Heavy Metals in Baby Food Using ICP-MS
• Rapid analysis of harmful heavy metals in pet food using EDXRF

Food Contamination

• Evaluation of Sample Preparation Methods for the Determination of Cereulide in Infant Formula using LC-MS/MS

Food Fraud

• Investigation of Varietal Classification Method for Coffee Beans Using Aroma Compounds
• Development of Automated Animal Species Identification for Halal Foods Using Multiplex PCR and Microchip Electrophoresis

Flavor and Metabolite

• Non-Targeted Analysis of Metabolites in Alcoholic Beverages Using LC-QTOFMS
• Quantitation of organic acids in Honey using LCMS
• Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometric Detection of Aroma Released During Gummy Chewing