RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The complexity of problems in food field, the continuous changements and disturbances, the increasing number of food alerts make it necessary the organized presence in our Centre of a group of researchers with high professional competence who are not involved in routine analyses but assigned to problem solving with regard to emergent topics.

Main analyses and services

• Setting up of new analytical methods in order to meet customers particular requirements, new food alerts and innovation of existing methods with the validation on different food products.
• Causes research and contribution to problem solving as regards Quality and Food safety. 
• Technological consulting for the improvement and the industrial planning of new products and/or production processes.
  
  
  

Main division resources

• GC with MS, NPD, ECD, FID, TCD, FPD detectors
• Headspace GC (HS-GC)
• HPLC with UV-VIS, DAD, FLD (fluorimetric), refractometric detectors
• HPLC-MS
• UV-VIS and IR spectrophotometry
• ICP
• AA (atomic absorption) with graphite furnace (GFAAS)
• AA (atomic absorption) with hydride generator (FIAS)
• automatized purification systems such as GPC