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Traceability

We offer an array of services focusing on Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance using state of the art instrumentation that have applications to food, agriculture, nutrition, ecology, environment, forensic, archeology, paleo-climatology, and hydrology sciences.

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Instruments

Image: TCEA e EA - IRMS (Thermo Scientific)
TC/EA and EA - IRMS (Thermo Scientific)

TC/EA (High Temperature Conversion Elemental Analyzer) and EA (Elemental Analyzer) - Delta Plus XP IRMS for δ2H and δ18O or δ13C and δ15N analyses in solids and liquids

Image: GC - IRMS (Thermo Scientific)
GC - IRMS (Thermo Scientific)

Trace Ultra Gas Chromatographer connected to DeltaV IRMS for δ13C, δ15N or δ2H compound specific analyses (e.g. aminoacids, fatty acids, aromas, APIs, pollutants)

Image: GC IRMS per analisi compound specific
LC/Gas Bench - IRMS (Thermo Scientific)

LC Isolink - Delta V IRMS for δ13C compound specific analyses (e.g. sugars, acids, amminoacids) or Gas Bench II for δ2H and δ18O after equilibration analyses in liquids

Image: EA - IRMS (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH)
EA - IRMS (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH)

EA (Elemental Analyzer VARIO CUBE) coupled to Vision IRMS for δ13C, δ15N, δ34S analyses in solid and liquid samples

Image: Multiflow - IRMS (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH)
Multiflow - IRMS (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH)

Isotope ratio mass spectrometer interfaced with an online system for CO2/H2O equilibration for δ2H and δ18O analyses in liquid samples

Image: Analisi SNIF-NMR
SNIF NMR 400MHz Avance 400 (Bruker Corporation)

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer 400 MHz equipped with probe for site‐specific natural isotopic fractionation (SNIF) measurement of deuterium-hydrogen ratio determinations

Image: NMR 400MHz e NMR 600 MHz
NMR 600MHz Ascend 600 (Bruker Corporation)

Spectrometer designed for measuring complex mixtures like foodstuffs, biological fluids, pharmaceutical and industrial products, allowing for observation of fine spectral features

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NMR 400MHz Ascend 400 (Bruker Corporation)

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer for routine experiments like proton spectroscopy for 1H-NMR profiling of food products and SNIF measurement of deuterium-hydrogen ratios

Services

Development of methods for stable isotope ratios analyses

Support and development of analytical approaches based on the determination of stable isotope ratios of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur of bulk and compound specific type (ISO 17025 accreditation since 1998)

Development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance analytical methods

Support and development of analytical approaches based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (targeted, untargeted, NMR profiling)

Development of traceability models

Development of mathematical-statistical models (including isoscapes) based on isotopic and/or NMR data for the traceability/verification of authenticity of products in the agri-food or pharmaceutical / nutraceutical fields

Applications

Food, Agriculture, Nutrition

Development of methods able of objectively verifying the origin of a product or its authenticity to enhance and protect high quality products and support official control bodies in their activities.

Forensic sciences

Development of methods usable to verify the origin of a product / component or its authenticity in the field of forensic sciences, for example in the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical fields for the verification of products subject to frauds

Animal and plant ecology and physiology

Development of methods to elucidate: - animal food webs, - trace animal migration patterns, - determine dynamics of crop/soil interface, - reveal insights into the physiology of plants helping in genotypes selection

Archeology, Paleoclimatology, Hydrology

Thanks to the great technological and scientific know-how acquired, the Platform can support research activities in the most varied fields of application, including archeology, paleoclimatology and hydrology.