Food and Beverage Products & Reviews

Quick and compliant fat extraction

Our new MET ONE 3400+ Series Portable Airborne Particle Counter allows users to load their routine environmental monitoring SOP sampling map and sampling configuration for each location directly into the counter, so that the SOP becomes an interactive sampling map directly on the counter screen to guide users doing daily sampling. This helps reduce training requirements and sampling data errors/omissions.

NEBNext® reagents are a series of highly pure reagents that facilitate library preparation of DNA or RNA for downstream applications such as next generation sequencing and expression library construction. Available in sets, master mixes and modules, these robust reagents undergo stringent quality controls and functional validation, ensuring maximum yield, convenience and value. Advantages of NEBNext Reagents for RNA Library Pr…

Q5® Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit enables rapid, site-specific mutagenesis of double-stranded plasmid DNA in less than 2 hours. The kit utilizes the robust Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase along with custom mutagenic primers to create insertions, deletions and substitutions in a wide variety of plasmids. After PCR, the amplified material is added directly to a unique Kinase-Ligase-DpnI (KLD) enzyme mix for rapid, roo…

The NEBNext® DNA Library Prep Master Mix Set for Illumina® contains enzymes and buffers in convenient master mix formulations that are ideally suited for sample preparation for next-generation sequencing, and for preparation of expression libraries. NEBNext® reagents are a series of highly pure reagents that facilitate sample preparation of DNA or RNA for downstream applications such as next generation sequencing and expressi…

he NEBNext® Ultra™ DNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina contains enzymes and buffers that are ideal to convert a small amount of DNA input into indexed libraries for next-generation sequencing on the Illumina platform (Illumina, Inc). The workflow of NEBNext Ultra DNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina is very user-friendly and fast with minimal hands-on time.NEBNext® reagents are a series of highly pure reagents that facilitate samp…

NEBNext® dsDNA Fragmentase® generates dsDNA breaks in a time-dependent manner to yield 100–800 bp DNA fragments depending on reaction time. NEBNext dsDNA Fragmentase contains two enzymes, one randomly generates nicks on dsDNA and the other recognizes the nicked site and cuts the opposite DNA strand across from the nick, producing dsDNA breaks. The resulting DNA fragments contain short overhangs, 5´-phosphates, and 3´-hydroxyl…

The NEBNext® mRNA Library Prep Master Mix Set for Illumina® contains enzymes and buffers that are ideally suited for sample preparation for next-generation sequencing, and for preparation of expression libraries. NEBNext® reagents are a series of highly pure reagents that facilitate sample preparation of DNA or RNA for downstream applications such as next generation sequencing and expression library construction. The reagents…

The DMA-80 mercury determination system can analyze any matrix (solid, liquid or gas) without any pre-treatment or chemical additions in as few as 6 minutes in full compliance with EPA method 7473. With thousands of units installed, Milestone defines the benchmark for direct mercury determination a wide range of industries: environmental, food energy, cement, cosmetics, agriculture, mining and petrochemical.

The process of fat determination in food and feed matrices is a routine analysis still relies on outdated and matrix-dependent methods which use obsolete and time-consuming technologies. The ETHOS X offers a new approach to gravimetric fat determination, moving toward a more modern, greener and more efficient approach to total fat, Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) and free fat determinations in food and feed matrices.

The Coriolis Micro portable biological air sampler is a standard for testing air quality. Both indoors and outdoors, it’s the most efficient biological air sampler: It can take just 10 minutes to collect airborne particles using its cyclonic technology paired with a high suction rate. By generating samples in the fluid phase, Coriolis µ is compatible with rapid microbiological analysis methods.

Clean Screen® DAU Solid Phase Extraction Column is the flagship product of the forensic solid phase extraction column line. The first product of its kind in the industry, it is a mixed-mode column exhibiting both hydrophobic and cation exchange characteristics. Over 20 years of experience has shown this column to be effective on hundreds of drugs in both the acid-neutral and basic drug categories.

The Clean Screen® XCEL Solid Phase Extraction Columns are a line of sample prep phases designed to reduce the number of steps in the extraction, and therefore the amount of time and solvent necessary to complete the sample cleanup. Further advantages include reduced sample size and improved cleanliness and recovery. The Xcel I column will extract a wide array of basic drugs including benzodiazepines and opiates. The Xcel II co…

These cartridges are designed to meet large volume, real world samples. The frits and sorbent bed resist plugging, the format fits several types of manual and automated extraction systems. Various bonded phases available including C18, C8, DVB, & graphitized carbon black.

The Clean Screen® FASt column is a novel approach to improved sample preparation for LC/MS analysis. The column employs a one step process to prepare urine samples for analysis of multiple drugs and metabolites. By quickly and efficiently reducing the amount of unwanted matrix and particulates in the final sample, the analysis can proceed with less chance of matrix suppression and LC column clogging.

Clean Screen® Xcel Well Plates The Clean Screen Xcel products are a line of sample prep phases designed to reduce the number of steps in the extraction, and therefore the amount of time and solvent necessary to complete the sample cleanup. Further advantages include reduced sample size and improved cleanliness and recovery. The Xcel I well plate will extract a wide array of basic drugs including benzodiazepines and opiates.…

Positive Pressure Manifold - A simple, robust way to quickly process up to 48 samples at one time. The Positive Pressure Manifold can accommodate a multitude of column sizes and provides even flow to each position. Positive Pressure Manifold Features: All 48 positions are individually regulated to provide even pressure to each column. There are four banks of 12 positions each. The user can control flow to each of the four…

SELECTRA-SIL® Derivatizing Reagents SELECTRA-SIL® is an extensive line of derivatizing reagents manufactured by UCT at its facility in Bristol, PA. Our reagents are designed to increase molecular weight, lower boiling points, and create a more specific ion for compounds intended for gas chromatography and GC/MS. SELECTRA-SIL® Derivatizing Reagents Benefits: Improved chromatographic resolution - increased volatility - red…

Endcapped C18 - Enviro Clean SPE Cartridges Enviro-Clean® cartridges are designed for use by analysts that demand a clean, dependable and rugged product for low level environmental analyses. Our EC SPE Cartridges run the gambit of our sorbents for every configuration you require. C18, Octadecyl Hydrophobic, 1000 mg/6 mL. Part # EEC181M6

The latest addition to UCT’s QuEChERS line puts a new “spin” on dSPE. SpinFiltr™ combines the practice of conventional dSPE with the added benefit of ultrafiltration. UCT’s new format of dSPE salts paired with a 0.2µm filtration device, simultaneously removes unwanted matrix compounds and filters samples without the need for any additional steps. With traditional dSPE, analysts must pay close attention when removing t…

Spectrophotometric colorimeters with remote calibration

The Model F is a visual colorimeter designed to optimize the use of Lovibond ® glass filters in order to express color in terms of Lovibond® Red, Yellow, Blue, and Neutral. 

The Specac Mini-Pellet Press is an entry-level laboratory hydraulic press for the preparation of high-quality 7mm KBr pellets for transmission FTIR analysis. With a rugged and durable design, this press is intended for regular laboratory use with maintenance-free operation. Specac’s Mini-Pellet Press is designed to be used on a laboratory benchtop, but is small in size and light enough in weight to allow it to be moved to d…

Specac manufactures a wide range of high-quality Evacuable Pellet Dies suitable compacting powdered samples into discs or briquettes. These are particularly well suited for the preparation of solid KBr pellets for FTIR molecular spectroscopic analysis and XRF pellets for X-Ray Fluorescence atomic spectroscopic analysis (as required by a number of USLP and ASTM methods), but also find use in a broad range of other applications.…

Specac’s High Temperature High Pressure Cell (HTHP) Accessory is a multipurpose cell for the FTIR analysis of solid samples in transmission, decomposition, or specular reflectance modes. Sample temperatures up to 800ºC can be obtained and the cell can operate at pressures from vacuum (0.1 torr) to 1000 psi for in-situ reaction studies. The standard HTHP Cell (GS05850) can be used for transmission analysis of 13 mm diameter…