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Meat & Poultry Testing

Meat & Poultry producers operate in highly diverse and complex supply chains that are tightly regulated across the globe. Processors must ensure nutritional and compositional quality across their operation, from initial screening of incoming ingredients and raw materials, to monitoring and optimizing production to maximize efficiency, to final testing of finished products to verify product release requirements. We provide state-of-the-art analytical solutions for testing and analysis of raw meats, process optimization, and verification of finished meat products. Our solutions are based on proven technologies, user friendly software, and ready-to-use methods.

What’s more, our solutions incorporate universal calibrations that cover thousands of sample types – everything from raw ham and frankfurters to salami and meatballs. So whatever type of meat products you produce, our solutions can help you reduce costs while improving quality.

Pathogen & Microbiology Analysis

Meat and Poultry are vehicles for foodborne pathogens that can be introduced at any point along the food chain such as Listeria, Salmonella, and E.coli O157:H7. To comply with stringent regulations and customer requirements, meat & poultry processors must manage potential food safety hazards and take corrective actions to actively monitor critical points in their process. PerkinElmer offers fast, accurate and validated pathogen detection tests to screen raw materials, to verify adequacy of process controls, for environmental monitoring and for final product release.

Rapid Listeria Monocytogenes Detection

The Solus Listeria monocytogenes ELISA test kit provides laboratories with an easy-to-use, cost-effective, highly efficient method for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes in food and environmental samples.

Meat Testing Solutions

PerkinElmer provides state-of-the-art analytical solutions for testing and analysis of raw meats, process optimization, and verification of finished meat products. Our solutions are based on proven technologies, user friendly software, and ready-to-use methods. What’s more, our solutions incorporate universal calibrations that cover thousands of sample types – everything from raw ham and frankfurters to salami and meatballs. So whatever type of meat products you produce, our solutions can help you reduce costs while improving quality.

Meat and Seafood Testing Solutions

Food testing labs like yours are constantly challenged with accurately analyzing samples quickly and efficiently - all while striving to reduce costs due to market forces. Your commitment to ensuring meat and seafood are safe for consumption, as demand increases, is an uphill battle. Our commitment to you: to provide a range of solutions across multiple technologies, products, and services that meets or exceeds the testing needs of food processors. Our solutions offer more efficiency and increased accuracy and sensitivity for better yields in real time with minimal training. From instrumentation and software to consumables and reagents to service and support, we are dedicated to providing you with end-to-end solutions that ease your everyday challenges of automation, throughput, service, and time to results.

Residue & Contaminant Analysis

Hazardous residues and contaminants can enter meat & poultry through the environment, during processing, or during production through preventive or misuse of veterinary drugs in animal husbandry. Analysis of chemical contaminants such as veterinary residues, toxins, pesticides, and other compounds is an essential part of meat & seafood food safety programs. With shifting consumer preferences towards antibiotic free products, meat and poultry companies must verify antibiotic and hormone free marketing claims, and ensure conformity with country of export regulatory requirements. PerkinElmer offers a complete, sensitive and flexible range of state-of-the-art solutions, from ELISA kits to the most advanced triple quadrupole mass spectrometer, to rapid screen, detect and quantify all the possible contaminants in meat and poultry at trace levels.

A Multiclass Multiresidue Method for Analysis of Veterinary Drugs in Chicken by UHPLC/MS/MS

Veterinary drugs are used in animal production to treat diseases, prevent infection and protect growth of animals, which helps provide quality marketplace. However the uncontrolled use may cause heavy human disease so regulatory agencies around the world have established maximum residue levels (MRLs) or tolerances of veterinary drugs in foods. Drug analysis is generally challenging, due to the complexity of sample matrices and diversity of analytes from various classes of chemical properties. In this study, a fast, sensitive and selective method has been developed for analysis of 73 veterinary drugs (covering 13 different chemical classes) in chicken samples by coupling solvent extraction method with LC/MS/MS.

Determination of 24 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Smoked Meat by ASE Extraction-GPC Purification Coupled with GC/MS

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a class of complex compounds containing two or more benzene rings, are widely found in the environment and food. PAHs are formed during the incomplete combustion of organic matter, such as wood utilized in cooking and food preparation. They have attracted wide attention due to studies which have shown the teratogenicity and carcinogenicity of PAH compounds. For humans, food intake is one of the main sources of PAH exposure, and can be the result of contamination from anthropogenic sources, food processing or cooking practices. In this paper, a validated method employing accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) and gel permeation chromatography (GPC), followed by solid phase extraction (SPE) on silica and analytical determination by GC/MS was applied for the detection of PAHs in smoked meat. The results demonstrate that the method is suitable for the simultaneous determination of 24 PAHs in smoked meat with good efficiency, accuracy and reproducibility.

Determination of Thirteen Beta Agonists in Pork Using UHPLC - Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Beta-adrenergic receptor agonists (ß- agonists) are synthetic drugs utilized in the treatment of conditions such as asthma in humans, and are also used as a growth-promoting agent in food-producing animals. The use of ß- agonists in food-producing livestock has been either banned or regulated across many countries owing to human health concerns. To aid in the monitoring and detection of ß- agonists in livestock, a highly sensitive and selective analytical method has been developed, and is presented in this study. This LC/MS/MS method details the analysis of 13 ß- agonists in pork samples, and utilizes isotopically-labeled internal standards to compensate for matrix effects present in complex food matrices.

The Elemental Analysis of Meat and Seafood with the NexION 300/350 ICP-MS

The elemental content of food products is very important, both in relation to nutritional and toxic elements. Nutritional elements can either be native to the food substance or can be added to enhance the health benefits. Toxic elements can enter food either through the environment or processing during production. Hopefully, toxic elements will be present at extremely low levels, while nutritional elements will be present at optimal levels. The elemental capabilities and dynamic range of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) make it ideally suited for the analysis of food materials. This work has demonstrates the ability of PerkinElmer’s NexION 300/350X ICP-MS to effectively measure macro-level nutritional elements in the same analysis run as lower-level elements, without having to dilute the samples.

MaxSignal Ractopamine ELISA Verification Report

Ractopamine has been banned for use as a livestock growth promoter in many regions and countries including Europe and China. To prevent ractopamine residues from entering the food chain, both producers and government surveillance agencies need technologies and methods that can provide rapid, accurate and reliable detection at specific sensitivities. MaxSignal® Ractopamine ELISA Kit enables government agencies, food manufacturers, as well as quality assurance organizations, to detect ractopamine as low as 0.1 ng/g or 0.1 ppb in a variety of sample types. In the current study, an improved sample preparation protocol was developed and validated for swine feed.

Meat Testing Solutions

The Preparation and Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Meat by GC/MS

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are hydrocarbon molecules containing two or more aromatic rings. Some PAHs, such as benzo[a]pyrene, are classified as carcinogens. There are concerns about PAHs in food, especially in grilled meats. This application note presents a method developed to measure 15 + 1 EU priority PAHs at low levels using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS). It also describes a reliable procedure for extraction and purification of PAHs from meat samples. The sample preparation will focus on benzo[a]pyrene. In addition to method optimization and calibration, a variety of meat samples are analyzed and the amount of PAHs determined.

Meat and Seafood Testing Solutions

Nutritional & Compositional Analysis

As meat producers and processors, you deal with a wide array of nutritional, authentication, and compositional challenges. You need to analyze meat quickly to determine whether it meets your exacting specifications, and to segregate products by quality for optimal use; to develop more consistent products by modifying meat blends for fat, moisture, ash, protein, and collagen; and to test for toughness, texture, and more. Our solutions are based on proven technologies, user friendly software, and ready-to-use methods. For your key method needs, from mineral analysis with our Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy and Inductively Coupled Plasma instruments, to amino acid and vitamin analysis with our Chromatography solutions, to proximates with our renowned NIR analyzers, we ensure products that are in quality compliance and meet nutritional requirements. What’s more, our solutions incorporate universal calibrations that cover thousands of sample types – everything from raw ham and frankfurters to salami and meatballs. So whatever type of meat products you produce, our solutions can help you reduce costs while improving quality.

Analysis of Pork Adulterated Meat

A selective and sensitive LC/MS/MS method for fast identification and analysis of meat samples using three peptides specific for pork as biomarkers. . The optimized sample preparation procedure is easy to follow and can be used for analyzing raw, cooked and processed meat products. This method can selectively detect peptides from pork meat species at a threshold detection limit of 1% w/w (10 mg/g) in a variety of food products and thus the method can be useful for analysis of Halal food (or pork related food products) samples.

DA 6200 Meat Brochure

It’s critical that processors and producers of meat products are able to monitor and control fat, moisture, protein, and other key nutritional parameters. With near infrared (NIR) technology, you can achieve multiconstituent results in seconds rather than hours, as with traditional chemical analysis methods. Our DA 6200™ NIR meat analyzer gives you the ability to analyze any time, with real time results so producers of ground meats, sausages, separated poultry, and other meat products can reduce product variations while improving profitability and quality. The DA 6200 meat analyzer can help improve profit, quality, and consistency in all types of meat production. You can analyze fat, moisture, protein, and more – quickly, easily, and accurately – or use it to verify incoming meats, in-process blends, and finished products. And with its on the- spot analysis capability, you can run your plant more efficiently.

Analysis of Meat and Meat Products Using the DA 6200 NIR Analyzer

With Near Infrared (NIR) technology multi-constituent results are available in seconds rather than several hours as with many traditional chemical analysis methods. With the ability to analyze as often as desired with results in real-time, producers of ground meats, sausages, separated poultry or other meat products can reduce product variations and thereby improve quality and profit. The DA 6200™ is a new NIR instrument making routine meat product analysis easier than ever. It is based on transmission Diode Array NIR technology with the measurement light transmitted through the sample. This means a very large and representative sample volume is analyzed in each measurement. The multi-component analysis is done in 30 seconds using easy to handle magnetic coupled plastic sample cups. transmitted through the sample. This means a very large and representative sample volume is analyzed in each measurement. The multi-component analysis is done in 30 seconds using easy to handle magnetic coupled plastic sample cups.

DA 7300 Mechanically Separated Poultry A

Using the DA 7300 in-line NIR a production facility can have real-time 24/7 analysis capability for the accurate control of moisture, protein, and fat in mechanically separated poultry meat. The instrument analyzes moving product directly in a pipe allowing users to significantly reduce sampling error associated with grab samples. It also provides a complete analysis profile of the entire batch. Reduction in sampling error and the use of stable instrumentation developed for rugged process environments yield data that can be used to achieve true process control.

Analysis of Meat and Meat Products using the DA 7250 NIR Analyzer

For meat processors and producers of meat products it is critical to be able to monitor and control key nutritional parameters such as fat, moisture, protein, collagen and salt. With Near Infrared (NIR) technology multi-constituent results are available in seconds rather than several hours as with many traditional chemical analysis methods. NIR instrument usage provide great values in production of mechanically separated poultry, ground meats, sausage and other meat products.

The Elemental Analysis of Meat and Seafood with the NexION 300/350 ICP-MS

Analysis of Raw Meat By-Products using the DA 7250 NIR Analyzer

For meat processors and users of meat by-products, such as pet food producers, it is important to rapidly test samples for protein and other nutritional contents. The Near Infrared Reflectance (NIR) technology is highly suitable for these purposes. The DA 7250 uses novel Diode Array NIR technology and performs a multi-component analysis in less than 10 seconds. During this time a large number of full spectra are collected and averaged.

Meat Testing Solutions

Meat and Seafood Testing Solutions

Process Optimization

Fluctuations in fat and moisture content can lead to out-of-spec products and unnecessary lean-meat giveaway. Use our NIR analyzers, at-line and in-line, to measure in-production samples and control the process.

With fast, accurate results, adjustments can be made in realtime to better meet target values. They also reduce safety margins and rework while optimizing mixing.

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