Food & Environmental

Public health and environmental testing laboratories rely on our instruments, software, reagents, and consumables products to help ensure the safety of drinking water and that foods are authentic and free of adulterants or contaminants. Our instruments help our customers identify PFAS (aka: “forever chemicals” that can be harmful to humans and the environment) at very low levels to study their persistence and toxicity. Waters also provides both technology and expertise to help advance the science of plant-based and alternative protein foods.

Increasing the Efficiency and Accuracy of Pesticide Residue Screening in Food using Microfluidic Chromatography and Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
By Ramesh Rao October 23, 2014July 6, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

With the ever-increasing number of compounds that need to be monitored at low concentrations in a wide variety of complex food commodities, pesticide residue analysis in food has become a more challenging task. There is a need for qualitative multi-analyte screening strategies that are capable of efficiently detecting residue violations to protect consumer safety. Because…