All food suppliers are concerned with food safety and increasingly, legislation enforces this commitment.
When medication is given to poultry or other farm
animals, whether by injection or through their feed, it
leaves residues in the muscle, kidney or liver tissue.
Gas chromatograph-Mass
Spectrometer (GC/MS) with electron
impact ionization (EI) and
selected ion monitoring (SIM) is widely used
because of its sensitivity and selectivity.
New demands in the food industry mean: traceability to satisfy regulative requirements,
measuring, analyzing, improving to produce high quality products and reducing cost at
the same time.
By Ann Marie McNamara, Ann Schultz, Nancy Dick and Vicki Ritter