Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing, with the goal of solving a wide range of persistent problems facing global food supply chains.
“This is an opportunity to positively impact many peoples’ lives by giving researchers better ways of analyzing food-borne illnesses and food quality on a significant scale”
As part of the collaboration, Agilent will equip the NCFST lab in Summit-Argo Ill. with an extensive assortment of the latest analytical chemistry and life science instrumentation including:
- a Model 7890 gas chromatograph;
- a Model 5975B gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS);
- a Model 7000B triple quadrupole GC/MS, a Model 1290 Infinity ultra high performance liquid chromatograph (UHPLC);
- a Model 6400 triple quadrupole LC/MS;
- a Model 6500 Accurate Mass quadrupole time-of-flight MS;
- a Model 7700 inductively-coupled-plasma MS; and
- a Model 2100 Bioanalyzer, which is a lab-on-a-chip system set up to analyze DNA in fish samples.
In addition to the instrumentation, scientists from Agilent’s food industry group will provide training and applications support, and service engineers from Agilent’s Chicago office will support the instruments.