Now the rapid way to detect melamine 

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Food testing laboratory Eurofins UK has developed a new rapid approach for the testing of melamine contamination in chocolate, with same day results available by special request.

For those importing chocolate products, particularly from China where melamine adulteration of powdered milk has been a problem, a sensitive rapid method for testing melamine is essential.

According to Eurofins, the new method improves on others, which often provided unreliable results due to chocolate's high fat content. It uses the latest chromatographic liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)/MS instrumentation recently installed at the firm's Wolverhampton laboratory meaning quicker results in fewer steps. The new instrumentation has excellent sensitivity and the methodology has been designed to handle high fat content sample types such as milk and milk-derived products such as chocolate, butter, cheese, plus soya-derived products.

In July 2010 the World Health Organisation confirmed tolerances for melamine at 2.5 parts per million (ppm) in foods and 1ppm for infant formulas.

Contact: Eurofins

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