Multi-multi Analysis for dried fruit

August 2018. The Eurofins laboratories for Food & Feed testing in Germany extend their innovative multi-multi-method to dried fruit in order to meet the steadily increasing requirements of its customers to provide analytical results faster, cheaper and with consistent quality.

What Does multi-multi mean?

Multi-method is the analysis of several parameters in one run (multi-analyte-method). Examples in the field of pesticide analyses are the methods DFG S19 or QuEChERS. The special feature of the multi-multi-method is the combination of two multi-methods from different substance groups.

Also for dried fruits

The multi-multi-method on dried fruit covers the detection of pesticides and mycotoxins with a single analysis run. While retaining the same reliability and analytical quality as with conventional analytical methods the method offers the following advantages:

• a shorter analysis time
• lower prices compared to the detection of these substances with different physicochemical properties by the ue of conventional analytical methods

How does the multi-multi-method work?

In comparison to conventional HPLC or LC MS / MS based methods the advantages of the multi-multi-method result from the partially automated purification of the sample. The separation of the sample matrix is performed by the instrument itself. Thus, manual wet chemical operations in the lab are minimised and costs are reduced. Additionally, the use of modern, highly efficient separation columns coupled with state of the art tandem mass spectrometers allows the extraction, separation and detection of very different groups of substances in just one clean-up and measuring step. Thus, several multi-methods can be combined in one single analysis. 

Proven quality

For cereals, cereal products and oilseeds this method has proved its merit for a long time and offers food producers and traders a faster preselection or release test.

Compared to conventional HPLC or LC MS/ MS methods the validation results show that the multi-multi-method allows equivalent or lower quantification limits for the residue analysis of dried fruit at a better price/performance ratio.

Do you have any questions? Just contact us

For further questions on multi-multi-analyses, please do not hesitate to contact your account manager or directly Katrin Rentsch.