Innovation in the Pursuit of Safe, Authentic, Nutritious, and Sustainable Food Supply Chains

Welcome to DAY 3 of the Waters Food Testing Forum 2022

Explore the latest technology and methodology solutions to help you more easily and efficiently test samples for authenticity, safety, and quality.

• Discover new tools and solutions for the rapid characterization of food and animal tissues.

• Learn how you can set up amino acid workflows to support the development and QC of alternative protein products.

• Panel discussion on LC and LC-MS technologies and testing workflows for the alternative protein market.

• Obtain valuable resources to show the practical application of Waters’ solutions, including application notes, case studies, and whitepapers.  

AGENDA:

Session 1 (30 min): Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry for High Throughput Food Analyses

• Simon Hird (Waters) 

Mass spectrometry, using ambient ionization techniques, combined with multivariate statistical analysis, is a technique for rapid characterization of food and animal tissues, either with no requirement for sample preparation or just simple dilution/extraction. In this session we focus on two of those techniques; Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) and Atmospheric Solids Analysis Probe (ASAP) mass spectrometry. This talk will explore a series of case studies demonstrating that ambient ionization MS, using untargeted, metabolomics workflows, multivariate statistics, and real-time recognition software, can be considered as a high-throughput and accurate strategy for real-time classification of samples in relation to issues of food authenticity, safety, and quality.

Session 2 (30 min): Getting Started with Amino Acid Analysis for Food Protein Hydrolysates and Cell Culture Media

• Gitte Barknowitz (Waters) 

The alternative protein market is growing and continually innovating with frequent product launches. Areas of new product development include plant-based protein alternatives like burgers, but also cell-cultured meat, milk, and fish, as well as new mycoprotein and insects’ products. New products will often have a need for nutritional characterization. As they all aim to deliver protein, knowledge about the amino acid profile is one of the first requirements for product optimization and determination of protein quality. Waters has extensive experience in analyzing amino acids and provides a solution with instrument methods, standards, and chemicals for derivatization and analysis. The AccQ•Tag Method is a reliable pre-column derivatization technique for amino acid analysis which delivers a separation and quantification using a gradient-based, reversed-phase UPLC method with optical detection.

In this webinar, we will introduce the Waters solution and provide tips and tricks for setup requirements.

Product Highlight (10 min): Radian ASAP

Panel Discussion (30 min):  How are Analytical Technologies Supporting Innovation in the Alternative Proteins Market

• Albert Cheong (Director of Cell Culture Media, TurtleTree)
• Dr. Pam Ismail (Founder & Director, Plant Protein Innovation Center, University of Minnesota)
• Gitte Barknowitz Ph.D. (Application Planning and Development, Waters Corporation)