Food Contaminant Testing | Reliable LC-MS/MS & GC-MS/MS

Reliable, accessible contaminants results

With regulatory and environmental dynamics across the global food supply chain constantly evolving, your lab's versatile, trusted testing of contaminants and residues in food, feed, beverage, and food contact materials has never been more critical.

With Waters, your lab can:

Achieve comprehensive contaminant testing with LC- and GC-MS/MS-based analytical solutions — from acrylamide to zearalenone, almonds to zucchini
Optimize productivity, reduce downtime, and stay ahead of regulatory and operational demands with services
Be compliant-ready with advanced, accessible technologies that have quality and sustainability considered throughout our product design

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Comprehensive workflow for every contaminant testing lab

As regulations and testing demands change, you need to make sure your business goals, turnaround times, and quality of service can match.

With versatile, fully integrated mass spectrometry (MS)-based solutions from Waters, your lab is ready - from sample preparation to final report.

Industry-leading, application-specific consumable products, including sample preparation and chromatographic columns with supporting automation options
Sustainable LC- and GC-MS/MS solutions to meet your preferred analytical approach, whether it be dilute and shoot, passthrough clean up or automated SPE cleanup
Streamlined data review of multi-residue sample batches with speed and consistency using next-generation, networked waters_connect Software
Improved implementation time with complimentary compound MRM databases, developed applications, and personalized application support and system service plans to meet your customers' analytical needs

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Repeatable results you can trust

Quality is the cornerstone of every business. With Waters analytical workflow solutions designed with quality in mind, your lab can meet your business goals with confidence.

Waters keeps your lab compliant-ready by:

Embedding quality and scientific rigor in every method with controlled column chemistries, Xevo TQ Mass Spectrometers, and interlaboratory studies across our demo lab facilities
Delivering workflow technologies and solutions to support analytical rigor required by global regulatory, accreditation, and certification bodies, including ISO 17025
Enabling best practice monitoring of system suitability and method performance, with waters_connect for Quantitation Software and waters_connect System Monitoring Software for proactive oversight
Offering compliant-ready and LIMS-integrable software, without the complexity —allowing secure access, electronic signatures, and in-the-background, track-and-trace audit trails, so you stay audit-ready

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Constantly innovating for your lab

Building resilient operations means equipping your lab with modern instrumentation, connected data systems, and up-to-date workflows that keep processes running smoothly — even as regulations, technology, and business demands evolve. With Waters solutions, you can ensure continuity across your operations with innovative, purposeful technologies.

With Waters, your lab can:

Reduce unscheduled system downtime, even in complex crude food matrices, through the Xevo TQ Mass Spectrometer's ion optics design
Open the (universal source) door to increased ionization efficiency, sensitivity, and overall method performance using UniSpray Ion Source
Respond to global supply issues, e.g., helium carrier gas shortages, with alternative carrier gas of nitrogen on Waters Atmospheric Pressure Gas Chromatography (APGC) for maintained method performance, without additional safety concerns
Strengthen operational resilience by modernizing aging instrumentation through the Waters FlexUP Technology Replacement Program

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Long-term partnership for your enduring success

What’s the benefit of choosing Waters?

Let our customers answer that:

“The reason is the people that work at Waters are excellent, supportive and always willing to help any applications.”
— Lab Manager, Food Testing Contract Lab, Canada

“While the instrumentation certainly demonstrates the performance we need, a crucial factor is the excellent support we receive from Waters.”
— Lab Manager, Food Testing Contract Lab, Germany

Partner with Waters to benefit from:

End-to-end analytical solutions for key contaminant methods, including pesticides, polar pesticides, mycotoxins, persistent organic pollutants, and PFAS from an experienced, award-winning service provider
Innovative yet accessible technologies to improve system uptime, GC performance, asset utilization, and reduce lengthy manual data review
Expert project and application consultancy to support method extension, consolidation, and development with Analytical and Laboratory Services that ensure smooth transitions and consistent data quality
Our global network of scientists, engineers, and commercial operations with supporting events, knowledge-sharing, and troubleshooting

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