Nov 20, 2019 | Agriculture, Applications, Chemistry, Color Measurement, Food, Food Safety & Quality, News
Here in the United States, it’s almost Thanksgiving! It’s a time to give thanks and at StellarNet we’re thankful for our customers! So, until the end of the year, we’re offering a “Buy a NIR spectrometer, get the visible channel FREE special”. This App Note...
Nov 14, 2019 | Applications, Color Measurement, Food Safety & Quality, News, UV-VIS Absorption
For this week’s Feasibility Friday, David and Jason are testing the SRM, EBC, and Lovibond colors of beer from a local brewery. David has chosen some classic styles with published SRM values to compare to. These three color scales are popular in the beer industry as a...
Jun 19, 2019 | Application, Applications, Biology, Food, Food Safety & Quality, SpectroRadiometry
B Yadav, AC Spinelli, BN Govindan, YY Tsui… – Food Research International, 2019 Abstract Ready-to-eat (RTE) deli meat has been linked to several Listeria monocytogenes associated recalls. Recent studies demonstrated the potential antimicrobial effects of...
Apr 30, 2019 | Application, Applications, Biology, Food, Food Safety & Quality, SpectroRadiometry
S CHAPLOT, B YADAV, B JEON, MS ROOPESH – Journal of Food Protection, 2019 Abstract In Canada, Salmonella-related foodborne illness accounts for more than 88,000 cases annually. Poultry products represent one of the major vectors for the zoonotic transmission of...
Nov 20, 2018 | Agriculture, Applications, Food Safety & Quality, News, NIR
Why Turkey on Thanksgiving? These tasty birds are large enough that they can feed a table full of hungry family, and unlike chickens or cows, they don’t serve much utilitarian purpose like laying eggs or making milk. Since the turkey is native to North America –...
Sep 7, 2018 | Application, Applications, Food Safety & Quality, News, NIR
Introduction If you’ve driven through the mid-western United States, you’ll have noticed that corn is an important and prevalent crop. Corn covers about 90 million acres of farmland in the U.S. and accounts for about two-thirds of global grain trade. The food,...