Alpha MOS News
April 16, 2012 : User testimonial: E-sensing Instruments Enhance Product Development & Ensure Food Quality, Optimum Nutrition
Optimum Nutrition, a leader in sports nutrition and nutritional supplements has selected Alpha MOS to enhance product development and ensure food safety and quality.
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February 7, 2012 : Pittcon 2012 - Conferee Networking Session: "FDA Food Safety Modernization ACT - Product Testing and Preventive Controls"
The newly passed Food Safety Modernization ACT demands more intensive testing and preventive controls to guarantee the food supply chain safety. This session proposes to discuss how analytical instruments such as the Electronic Nose & Electronic Tongue can help meet the legislation requirements and ensure product traceability.
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January 5, 2012 : Call For Papers - IEEE Sensors Journal: Special Issue on Machine Olfaction
The year 2012 is the tenth anniversary of the original special issue on machine olfaction at the IEEE Sensors Journal. During this time, the field has grown in a number of promising directions, including spectroscopic and olfactory receptor-based sensing, computational models of olfactory processing, and mobile and distributed sensing. The special issue provides a timely update on advances during the past decade (as well as a vantage point from which to evaluate the last 30 years) in the field and, more importantly, the challenges that still lie ahead.
Original research contributions, tutorials and review papers are sought in areas including (but not limited to):
- Sensors
- Signal Processing
- Olfactory modeling
- Applications
- Systems
- Sampling
The deadline for submitting a manuscript is August 31, 2012.
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December 1, 2011 : New application note on petfood analysis
Palatability enhancers are frequently used in pet food products. The quality of these ingredients greatly impacts the final product and thus the success among pets. The quality control consists of detecting and quantifying the compounds that mainly contribute to the flavor, as well as unwanted off-odors. HERACLES electronic nose was used to quantify off-odors in pet food ingredients, while comparing global sensory profiles. The instrumental method was fast, sensitive and reliable.
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November 18, 2011 : Sensing Valley website now online
Sensing Valley, of which Alpha MOS is a member, has just launched its new website online. This French cluster of 12 innovative companies from sensor networks and wireless solutions areas, contributes to the creation of new projects in the field of sensor networks.
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November 10, 2011 : New patent on measuring the intensity of odours
The Japanese Patent Office has issued Alpha MOS Patent No. 4,814,530 "Measuring the intensity of odors" for determining an odor intensity value based on the transformation of data measured by organoleptic sensing systems. This new patent will complete Alpha MOS patent portfolio and reinforce its expertise on existing products and data processing.
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October 18, 2011 : AgroFOOD Industry hi-tech: Rancidity control of nut mixtures using an electronic nose
Nuts are rich in polyunsaturated fats, which are particularly sensitive to lipid oxidation. A Flash GC based Electronic Nose was used to identify the causes of rancidity in nut mixes and to monitor global sensory quality. Five appetizers of different sensory qualities, all composed of the same nut types, were considered. It was shown that peanuts were the most critical ingredients in the development of rancidity off-flavours. Pecans and cashew nuts also presented a relatively high concentration of off-odours, but, their relatively low proportion in the final mix made them less critical towards rancidity. As for Brazil nuts, almonds and hazelnuts, containing lower amounts of volatile compounds, they proved to have a low impact on the overall mix aroma.
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September 27, 2011 : User testimonial: Rapid determination of of Espresso Capsules Freshness by Application of E-Nose, Strauss Coffee
Strauss Coffee B.V. is a global coffee producer. The company's analytical lab located in Israel at the Coffee Technology Center provides R&D and QC services for the whole group. An Alpha MOS HERACLES flash GC analyzer was used as the analytical tool of choice, to analyze the same capsules as for the sensory assessment.
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