RSSL aims to solve pesticide problems
detection service for the food industry. The new service is being
offered in partnership with an approved third party laboratory.
Reading Scientific Services (RSSL) is to launch a new pesticide detection service for the food industry. The new service is being offered in partnership with an approved third party laboratory, which offers expertise in high-resolution mass spectrometry to complement RSSL's existing analytical techniques.
The company claims to offer a rapid turn-round of five days and competitive pricing for general screening and detection of specific residues. The general screening service can detect more than 75 residues, including a wide range of organo-chlorines, organo-phosphates, pyrethroids and a selection of other residues.
Residues can be detected at levels below the stricter MRLs (maximum residue limits) proposed for introduction in 2007, and the company believes that this development that has the potential to transform pesticide residue analysis in the UK.
"The food industry has been crying out for a rapid and reliable analytical service for pesticide residues," said RSSL's Simon Flanagan
"Clients have become used to rapid turn-round in other areas of analysis, and this has only served to increase frustrations that labs have not been able to provide a similar service for pesticides. We are very confident that under the new arrangements RSSL will remedy this situation and give the industry the service it demands."
