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ADPEN Laboratories will be exhibiting at the Annual North American Chemical Residue Workshop (NACRW) to be held July 20-23, 2014 at the TradeWinds Island Grand in St. Pete Beach, FL. ADPEN continues our tradition of attending this very important annual meeting whose purpose is to “bring scientists together to develop and validate better methodologies.”
ADPEN will be exhibiting in Booth 38.
ADPEN Laboratories was featured in the Tecan Journal 3/2013 under the Mass Spectroscopy section. The article entitled “Meeting the demands of Mass Spectroscopy sample preparation” discusses ADPEN’s use of the Tecan Freedom Evo 100 robotic liquid handler. The Evo is used as part of ADPEN’s high throughput strategy for sample preparation. ADPEN ran many method trials to test the system’s robustness and validate the platform, successfully demonstrating that automation on the Freedom EVO was as good as, or better than, manual procedures.
Click on the image below to read the article or go Tecan Journal online to read the entire edition.
Florida was one of several states impacted by the oil spill and was on the receiving end of BP funds for testing and marketing its seafood. Martin May, management review specialist for the Florida Bureau of Seafood and Aquaculture Marketing in Tallahassee, says the state received $10 million from BP to test Gulf seafood and another $10 million for marketing. In the past, Florida marketed wild shrimp separately, but under its latest program all wild seafood is marketed together. “It’s in the vein of a rising tide floats all boats,” explains May. [Read more…]
FDA has amended the regulations to expand the scope of clinical investigator disqualification. Under this rulemaking, when the Commissioner of Food and Drugs determines that an investigator is ineligible to receive one kind of test article (drugs, devices or new animal drugs), the investigator also will be ineligible to conduct any clinical investigation that supports an application for a research or marketing permit for other kinds of products regulated by FDA. This final rule is based in part upon recommendations from the Government Accountability Office, and is intended to help ensure adequate protection of research subjects and the quality and integrity of data submitted to FDA. FDA also is amending the list of regulatory provisions under which an informal regulatory hearing is available by changing the scope of certain provisions and adding regulatory provisions that were inadvertently omitted. This rule is effective May 30, 2012.
To read the final rule visit this web link.
Olive Oil, milk, honey, saffron, orange juice, coffee, and apple juice are the top seven food ingredients subject to economically motivated adulteration, according to a food-fraud database created by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP; Rockville, MD).
USP says the database is the first known public database of its kind to compile reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food. The database also contains records of analytical detection methods used to detect adulterants.
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