GEN-MKT-18-7897-A
Aug 22, 2016 | Blogs, Food / Beverage | 0 comments
Quantitating antibiotics and insecticides in poultry is serious business. Overuse can lead to antibiotic resistance while insecticide residuals can cause harmful side effects in humans. In the United States, for example, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), has offered up a plan to limit common antibiotics in feed, which are used to encourage growth. However, this is a voluntary plan, and as the following application note, “Quantitation of Antibiotics and Insecticides in Poultry Feed using LC-MS/MS,” points out, antibiotics have been shown to accumulate in poultry feathers, which are in turn used for nutritional elements in the feed. Therefore, as the government agency works on getting suppliers on board with the new plan, scientists are working on a testing method of their own which detects nine antibiotics and four insecticides in poultry feed including:
Perhaps you have seen this study, but just in case you missed it, we have included the full report in the Food & Beverage Compendium, which is now available for download.Download the Food & Bev Compendium >
Application Note at a Glance: To give you more insight into this application note and others like it in the compendium, consider how poultry feed contains many nutritional ingredients. Researchers had to design a method that included a hefty extraction method and clean-up efforts. As a result, they designed a single method to quantify a wide selection of antibiotics and insecticides in poultry feed using a QTRAP® 5500 for detection. Want to see how the extraction/sample prep was carried out? These experimental conditions along with separation and MS/MS detection are included within the compendium (pages 121 to 125).
The Food & Beverage Compendium is full of similar studies on topics including:
Discover where science is taking Food and Beverage with this FREE, and Informative Compendium.
Useful FAQ document to enable researchers to focus on their scientific discoveries and insights rather than the complexities of data management.
In today’s environment in which labs are under pressure to reduce operating costs, many will compare the cost of a service contract between third-party providers and the original equipment manufacturer (OEM). At first glance, going with a service contract from a third-party provider may seem like a smart financial move, but experience shows they can introduce risks that affect reliability and compliance.
We recently hosted a webinar focused on streamlining forensic toxicology workflows, featuring expert speakers Maria Sarkisian from the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (SFOCME) and Dr. Dick Paul Kloos from the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). The webinar explored innovative LC-MS/MS strategies that help forensic labs improve efficiency. In this blog, we share highlights from the Q&A session, where our speakers addressed the audience’s questions and shared actionable insights for forensic laboratory professionals.
Posted by
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Share this post with your network