ADDING MULTIMEDIA PerkinElmer Expertise and Solutions Integral
to Food Safety Monitoring for the Beijing Games
Methods, Applications Expertise and Instrumentation Deployed in
Mobile Laboratory
WALTHAM, Mass. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 7, 2008 --
PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE:PKI), a
global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced that its
analytical solutions are being used by the Beijing Municipal Center for
Food Safety Monitoring (BFSM) in a mobile laboratory supporting the
Beijing Games. PerkinElmer instrumentation, software and expertise are
supporting testing for volatile organic compounds in beverages and
pesticides in food products.
Since the fall of 2007, PerkinElmer has provided a dedicated
applications expert to BFSM, working onsite at the headquarters
laboratory to help guide development of methods and applications to
support the laboratory and help ensure the safety of the food supply for
residents. This expert helped deploy the methods to a mobile lab to
support the influx of athletes and international visitors to Beijing
expected in August and September. More than 10,000 athletes are expected
to dine in the village for sporting teams and an additional 500,000
visitors are anticipated to watch the action and participate in the
festivities.
“As part of fulfilling PerkinElmer’s
commitment to global health and well-being, we are thrilled to provide
expertise, insights and solutions through our Shanghai Global
Application Center to the Beijing Center,”
said Richard Begley, Ph.D., president, Analytical Sciences, PerkinElmer. “Food
safety is a key platform in our EcoAnalytix™
initiative, which addresses the global imperatives of food and consumer
product safety, water quality and sustainable energy development to
create a healthy and safe environment.”
Collaborating with PerkinElmer on method development on the Clarus®
Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS) for the detection of
contaminants such as pesticides has accelerated BFSM’s
capability to conduct accurate analysis and evaluation on food. “We
have now transferred this capability to a mobile lab to be closer to the
source of the food we need to test,” said Lu
Yong, director of BFSM.
PerkinElmer is offering on-call support and technical assistance to the
mobile laboratory during the Beijing events and on-going support of BFSM’s
headquarters and satellite laboratories in their continued development
of methods and applications to help ensure the ongoing safety of the
Beijing food supply. PerkinElmer is supporting technical and application
development assistance in the areas of gas chromatography (GC), gas
chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), atomic absorption (AA), high
performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and inductively coupled
plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).
PerkinElmer has supported scientists across the world for 70 years in
the analysis of the nutritional composition and quality as well as the
types and levels of contaminants in foods and beverages. The Company’s
Clarus® 600 GC/MS, TurboMatrix™
Headspace
Trap and ELAN®
DRC™ II ICP-MS are being used for the
Beijing testing.
BFSM was established by the Beijing Food Safety Administration in 2004
to provide technical support for food safety management of the Beijing
municipal government and to support food safety for the international
sporting events in 2008.
For more information, visit www.perkinelmer.com/foodquality.
PerkinElmer, Inc. is a global technology leader driving growth and
innovation in Health Sciences and Photonics markets to improve the
quality of life. The Company reported revenues of $1.8 billion in 2007,
has 9,100 employees serving customers in more than 150 countries, and is
a component of the S&P 500 Index. Additional information is
available through www.perkinelmer.com
or 1-877-PKI-NYSE.
ELAN is a trademark of MDS, Inc.
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