BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Bruker (NASDAQ: BRKR) announced that its NMR FoodScreener™
laboratory for food authenticity and quality determination, located in
Rheinstetten, Germany, has been granted ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. The
certificate has been awarded for Bruker’s validated methods for the
determination of ingredients and measures of authenticity and quality of
liquid foods and food extracts by NMR spectroscopy. Government and
private analytical service laboratories offering NMR-based testing for
food authenticity and quality with Bruker’s standard operating
procedures (SOPs) and validated methods can now more easily get these
NMR methods accredited in their lab.
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Christian Kost, Managing Director of Winespin-Analytics GmbH, commented:
“As a company providing NMR-based analytical wine profiling, the ISO/IEC
17025 accreditation of Bruker is of significant importance, allowing us
to now offer accredited NMR wine profiling according to international
standards to our customers. The accreditation represents a milestone
towards NMR becoming a more widely used technique for wine analysis,
enabling us to offer this unique, information-rich technique to a
broader set of wine industry customers.”
All of Bruker’s current NMR food-screening applications for juice, wine
and honey profiling are now covered by this accreditation. Dr. Iris
Mangelschots, President of Bruker BioSpin’s Applied, Industrial and
Clinical (AIC) division, explained: “We are excited that the ISO/IEC
17025 accreditation has been achieved. NMR now delivers certified
methods for targeted, as well as non-targeted food screening. For food
analysis this enables the identification of unexpected and unknown
deviations and falsifications that can highlight processing issues,
frauds or adulterations.”
About Bruker Corporation
For more than 50 years, Bruker has enabled scientists to make
breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the
quality of human life. Bruker’s high-performance scientific research
instruments and high-value analytical solutions enable scientists to
explore life and materials at molecular, cellular and microscopic
levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling
innovation, productivity and customer success in life science molecular
research, in applied and pharma applications, in microscopy,
nano-analysis and industrial applications, as well as in cell biology,
preclinical imaging, clinical research, microbiology and molecular
diagnostics. For more information, please visit www.bruker.com/foodscreener.
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