The Sweet Truth of Honey
With the rising popularity of honey as a health food, comes the challenges and demands of honey safety and authenticity. Manufacturers and testing labs alike, need to test the product, meeting the strict guidelines and safety limits put in place by various regulatory bodies like FSSAI, E.U. etc. To decode what it means, the webinar will have experts sharing their knowledge and insights on everything honey.
In this webinar you will learn:
- Insights on honey authenticity & adulteration
- Solution approach for SMR testing & analysis
- Mass spectrometric techniques for honey testing
- Regulatory trends & guidelines governing honey industry
Presenter: Vikrant Goel (Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies)
Vikrant, has vast experience with various LCMS technologies including SQ, QQQ, Trap-QQQ, MALDIand QTOF based instruments from competition and Agilent. Hissolution-basedapproach has been well accepted among LCMS fraternity from Pharma and Applied market segments, since 2004. His passion towards solution, broughthim back to Application role, 6 years ago, and today’s session on HoneyAdulteration is one of theextensionsto same approach
Presenter: Dr. Ranjan Mitra (Head - Analytical Department, Dabur India Limited, Immediate Past President – India Section of AOAC INTERNATIONAL)
Dr. Ranjan Mitra currently heads the Analytical Department at Dabur Research & Development Centre, Dabur India Limited. His active research interests include development of novel analytical methods for the sensitive detection of bioactive molecules in food, cosmetics and ayurvedic/herbal formulations using hyphenated analytical techniques for claim substantiation.
Dr. Mitra holds aMastersdegree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India and a PhD inbio-inorganic/organic chemistry from University of Florida, USA. After completion of his PhD degree, he did a postdoctoral stint at University of Florida, USA before joining GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, India.
Dr. Mitra is currently the Immediate Past President of India Section of AOAC INTERNATIONAL and played a crucial role of delivering quality programs to meet the professional advancement needs of its members.
