Advanced Automation Technologies agrees to acquire GERSTEL

Expanding automated sample preparation capabilities

26-Nov-2024 - Advanced Automation Technologies, a platform of laboratory-automation brands backed by global investment firm Battery Ventures, announced an agreement to acquire GERSTEL GmbH & Co. KG and its international subsidiaries. GERSTEL, headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany and with sales ...

analytica 2024: Food analysis for sustainable nutrition

From PFAS to microplastics: focus on new harmful substances

16-Nov-2023 - From meat-free cold cuts to vegan salmon, the food market is changing. More and more consumers want to eat sustainably, but without sacrificing the taste of familiar products. “Modern analytical methods play a key role in the development of alternative foods, which is why analytica is ...

Genetically harmful compounds detected in vegetable oils

Genotoxins discovered for the first time using a novel method

06-Mar-2023 - Vegetable oils rich in unsaturated fatty acids are highly recommended for a healthy diet. But these oils are not as healthy as thought: Prof. Dr. Gertrud Morlock, holder of the Chair of Life Sciences at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), together with PhD student Daniel Meyer, has for the ...

Miniature material analysis sensors on the way to mass production

Senorics raises more than 8 million Euro

31-May-2021 - The Dresden high tech company Senorics has closed an 8 million € pre-series A financing round. The money allows for the necessary investments to scale the innovative material analysis sensor technology for the industrial market. The circle of investors was joined by FIDURA Private Equity as lead ...

Pocket-size food scanner

General-use, cost-effective scanning technology that can be easily adapted

07-Jan-2019 - According to a study by the environmental organization WWF Germany, ten million metric tons of food are thrown in the garbage every year in Germany despite still being edible. A mobile food scanner will allow consumers and supermarket operators in the future to test whether food items have gone ...

analytica supporting program: Come be amazed by laboratory technology, analytics and biotechnology

26-Jan-2018 - From April 10 to 13, Munich is once again the meeting point of the laboratory industry: analytica, the leading international trade fair for laboratory technology, analytics and biotechnology, offers many highlights in the supporting program in addition to the exhibition and the top-class ...

New procedures to authenticate foods as a step towards standardisation

06-Dec-2016 - Whether it is olive oil from Apulia, Pata Negra ham from Spain or 12-year-old single-malt whisky from the Scottish Orkney Islands - all these products are characterised by their quality and their high price. These properties also make a number of other foodstuffs including fish, honey and meat ...

CHEMIE.DE gives technological support for the launch of a food and beverages internet portal

The new B2B web portal yumda.de builds on the proven technology of Europe's leading chemistry portal

02-Dec-2013 - To launch their B2B portal for the food and beverages industries on the basis of a successful concept straight from the beginning, yumda.de has trusted in the extensive experience of CHEMIE.DE Information Service GmbH. The Berlin-based online information provider has technologically implemented ...

Premiere of Live Lab: analytica 2012 takes visitors to the world of laboratories

13-Feb-2012 - For the first time ever, portions of analytica Halls B1, B2 and A3 will be transformed into genuine laboratory environments. International companies will present their equipment in live operation on laboratory benches. Daily experiment presentations will inform visitors about developments in the ...

New analytical method for detecting the mineral oil contents in foodstuffs resulting from recycled cardboard

The BfR organised and international symposium on the subject "Mineral Oils in Food Packaging - Developments and Solution Strategies"

31-Oct-2011 - On 22 and 23 September 2011, about 400 representatives from the worlds of science, business and society as well as politics and government institutions discussed how food packaging made of recycled paper could be made safer. Two years ago, mineral oil contents classified as dangerous to health ...