The accreditation represents a milestone towards NMR becoming a more widely used technique for liquid foods and food extracts analysis.
Bruker 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 beenawarded for Bruker’s validated methods for the determination of ingredients andmeasures of authenticity and quality of liquid foods and food extracts by NMRspectroscopy. Government and private analytical service laboratories offeringNMR-based testing for food authenticity and quality with Bruker’s standardoperating procedures (SOPs) and validated methods can now more easily get theseNMR methods accredited in their lab.
“We are excited that theISO/IEC 17025 accreditation has been achieved. NMR now delivers certifiedmethods for targeted, as well as non-targeted food screening. For food analysisthis enables the identification of unexpected and unknown deviations andfalsifications that can highlight processing issues, frauds or adulterations.”
Christian Kost,Managing Director of Winespin-Analytics GmbH, commented: “As a companyproviding NMR-based analytical wine profiling, the ISO/IEC 17025 accreditationof Bruker is of significant importance, allowing us to now offer accredited NMRwine profiling according to international standards to our customers. Theaccreditation represents a milestone towards NMR becoming a more widely usedtechnique for wine analysis, enabling us to offer this unique, information-richtechnique to a broader set of wine industry customers.”
All of Bruker’scurrent NMR food-screening applications for juice, wine and honey profiling arenow covered by this accreditation. Dr. Iris Mangelschots, President of BrukerBioSpin’s Applied, Industrial and Clinical (AIC) division, explained: “We areexcited that the ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation has been achieved. NMR nowdelivers certified methods for targeted, as well as non-targeted food screening.For food analysis this enables the identification of unexpected and unknowndeviations and falsifications that can highlight processing issues, frauds oradulterations.”
