MAM
Food Biochemistry and Omix Laboratory
About Us
Our laboratory aims to provide innovative and reliable studies in the fields of ensuring food safety and quality, determination of functional components and traceability. By using advanced technologies, it is possible to examine the functional components of food products in detail, traceability and adulteration detection; it also supports product development processes with omix approaches.
Fields of Activity
Our laboratory aims to provide innovative and reliable studies in the fields of ensuring food safety and quality, determination of functional components and traceability. By using advanced technologies, it is possible to examine the functional components of food products in detail, traceability and adulteration detection; it also supports product development processes with omix approaches.
Services Offered
Test and Analysis Types
- Basic Nutrient Component Analyses (Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, Fats, Carbohydrates)
- Hazardous Residue Analysis (Heavy Metals and Mycotoxins)
- Advanced Chromatographic Analysis (GC, HPLC, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS)
- Olive oil authenticity and quality determination by spectroscopic techniques (NMR, Raman, FT-NIR), Determination of fatty acids and biomolecules, Structure determination of organic and inorganic compounds, process optimization and control, Structural verification and impurity determination of pharmaceutical active ingredients, Determination of spectral fingerprints
- Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) for Geographical Origin (Marks) Detection and Traceability, Verification of Organic Products, Detection of Counterfeiting and Adulteration in Foods, Food Supply Chain (Monitoring of production processes, microbiological, heavy metals, radioactive contamination, determination), Archaeological Studies (Determination of nutritional habits of the period thanks to isotope ratio detection in remains such as teeth, bones, collagen)
- Mass Spectrometry Analysis (Orbitrap, Triple Quad)
- Advanced Omics Approaches (Proteomics, Metabolomics, Volatolomics)
Technical Hardware and Equipment
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS) (Elementar Isoprime Precision)
The IRMS system in our laboratory offers high precision and reliable results with 3 different configurations that allow for a variety of product analysis.
- Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (HC-MS/MS) (Thermo Trace Ultra DSQ, Perkin Elmer Clarus 600)
- Gas Chromatography Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID) (Perkin Elmer AutoSystem XL)
- UV-Vis Spectrophotometer (Agilent Cary 3500)
- Refractometer (Kruss DR6000-T)
- Soxhlet devices (Velp Scientifica SER 158/6)
- Gerber Centrifuge (Funke-Gerber Supervario)
- Dietary Fiber Analyzer (RAYPA F-6P)
- Drop count device (Perten FN1000)
- Automatic titrators
- pH & conductivity meters
- Water activity analyzer (Stereoglass Waterlab)
- Muffle furnaces
- Nitrogen Incinerator (Velp Scientifica)
- Kjeldal Device (Velp Scientifica)
- Cellulose Device (Raypa Fibertest)
- Gluten Index Centrifuge (Perten Gluten Index)
- Dry Gluten glutork 2000
- Extensograph Device (Brabender)
- Farinograph Device (Brabender)
- Preperative HPLC (Shimadzu 20 series)
- Lyophilizers (Martin Christ Alpha 1-4 LSCbasic, Martin Christ Epsilon 2-4 LSC, TEKNOSEM TRS-2-2)
- Elemental Analysis (EA) - IRMS
- Gas Chromatography (GC) - IRMS
- Liquid Chromatography (LC) - IRMS
- Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer with Nano-Micro Electrospray Ionization (Thermo Scientific, Q-Exactive Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap MS)
- Headspace Gas Chromatography Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (HS-GC-MS/MS)-FID Detector (Agilent 8890GC/7000D Triple Qadrupole)
- Benchtop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (Bruker Fourier 80: Benchtop NMR)
- Raman Microscope (RENISHAW in Via Raman Microscope)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer (Agilent 5800 ICP-OES)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (Perkin Elmer Elan DRC II)
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) (Linseis CHIP-DSC 100)
- Fourier Transform Near Infrared Spectrometer (Bruker MPA II FT-NIR)
- HPLC-UV (Agilent 1260, Shimadzu 20 series)
- HPLC-UV-FLD (Shimadzu 20 series)
- HPLC-DAD-FLD (Agilent 1260)
- HPLC DAD (Shimadzu 20 series)
- HPLC-RID-UV (Shimadzu 20 series)