Shimadzu GCMSMS Solutions for Food Safety
Agricultural industry faces a huge challenge of producing increasing quantities of food. While meeting such expanding global food demand, the safety and sustainability of food supply is of utmost importance. With the use of chemicals, significant reduction in crop losses and thus increased yield has been achieved. However, the resulting pesticide residues is of growing concern with its potential health risks. The exponential growth of chemical hazards and their regulations have brought several challenges to the food safety industry. It is particularly challenging for laboratories to accurately analyse large amounts of samples and detect the non-compliant ones.
Understanding current laboratory requirements, GCMS-NX series along with its robust and sensitive hardware provides simplified user-friendly software for handling large multi-component data. Along with the unmatched hardware performance, Shimadzu also offers customizable databases and method packages as a total solution.
Presenter: Durvesh Sawant (Senior Application Chemist, Shimadzu Analytical India Pvt. Ltd.)
Mr. Durvesh Sawant has completed his Masters in Bioanalytical Sciences, having overall more than 8 years of experience in Analytical Chemistry.
His expertise lies in analysis of residual contaminants in various food matrices and pharmaceutical products with cutting edge technology like GCMS/GCMSMS. He has hands on experience on critical sample preparation techniques. He has participated as a speaker in various Food safety Seminars across India and as a trainer in FSSAIs’ trainers’ training program conducted in National Research Centre for Grapes, Pune.
