Advanced ASSET Technology Centre
Genetics | Reproduction | Behaviour | Nutrition | Health & Welfare | Productivity | Food Integrity | Environmental Impact
State-of-the-art scientific platforms to facilitate increasingly rapid and powerful identification of feed and food contamination.
In partnership with
Assured, Safe and Traceable
The Advanced ASSET Technology Centre is a linchpin of the Insitute for Global Food Security (IGFS), Queen’s University Belfast. In July 2020 it was listed as a ‘Centre of Expertise’ by the Food Authenticity Network – a Defra initiative. ASSET provides leading platforms to facilitate increasingly rapid identification of feed and food contamination and adulteration.
The mass spectrometry element features a range of hyphenated MS instruments. Various LC-MS/MS and GC-MS are available for tailored measurements of predetermined analytes such as toxins, pesticides or targeted metabolomics. Also available are high resolution accurate mass instruments (QTof) coupled to UPLC for non-targeted metabolomic analysis or equipped with an Ambient ionisation source such as REIMS, DESI or DART.
Equipment includes:
- Mass spectometry REIMS research system, incorporating ‘iKnife’
- DART (Direct Analysis in Real Time) ionisation couple to single quadrupole detector
- UPLC-QTof with associated processing software workflow suite
- Spectroscopy instrumentation
- FTIR (Fourier Transform Infra-red)
- NIR (Near Infrared) in benchtop and portable format
- Raman
Impact
Promoting global food integrity and enhancing the sustainability and global marketability of UK agrifood products.
Supporting the Grand Challenges facing livestock food production:
Food Safety, Quality and Integrity