SCIEX Accelerates Method Development To Screen For Poisons In Milk And Infant Formula
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies and solutions, today announced that their application team is actively developing a new method for screening of monofluoroacetic acid (MFA), also known as ‘1080’.
In 2008, a melamine milk scandal posed new challenges for the China dairy industry, to which SCIEX responded with an analytical method to test for melamine in milk. More recently; the chemical compound DCD was suspected of being in milk in Asia, and SCIEX responded with a method to test for DCD and similar compounds in milk. Another major food safety crisis has evolved in the region, as a national farming body and dairy company have received emails from unknown sources threatening to contaminate its milk and infant formula with a highly toxic pesticide. The New Zealand government branded the incident as “eco-terrorism”. Police reported that the threat was intended to pressure New Zealand to stop the use of MFA, a widely used agricultural pesticide to protect plants from rodents and other invasive mammals and insects, which has been banned in many other countries. Human ingestion of 1080 can cause food poisoning, cardiac abnormalities, muscle twitching, seizures, and coma, among others.
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In 2008, a melamine milk scandal posed new challenges for the China dairy industry, to which SCIEX responded with an analytical method to test for melamine in milk. More recently; the chemical compound DCD was suspected of being in milk in Asia, and SCIEX responded with a method to test for DCD and similar compounds in milk. Another major food safety crisis has evolved in the region, as a national farming body and dairy company have received emails from unknown sources threatening to contaminate its milk and infant formula with a highly toxic pesticide. The New Zealand government branded the incident as “eco-terrorism”. Police reported that the threat was intended to pressure New Zealand to stop the use of MFA, a widely used agricultural pesticide to protect plants from rodents and other invasive mammals and insects, which has been banned in many other countries. Human ingestion of 1080 can cause food poisoning, cardiac abnormalities, muscle twitching, seizures, and coma, among others.
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