Optical sensor enables 100 percent quality control of ultra-thin barrier layers

30-May-2024 - A new type of sensor makes it possible for the first time to test functional barrier layers on plastic products at production speed. The Film-Inspect testing system was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in cooperation with plasma system specialist ...

analytica: Significant upswing in international spin-offs

Country-specific challenges

26-Sep-2023 - The five international analytica trade fairs that make up the international cluster of the world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology registered some significant increase in visitors and exhibitors this year. With the successful local spin-offs in China, ...

Hamburg: Almost two-thirds of wines fail port samples

17-Aug-2022 - More than two thirds of the wines imported into the EU via the port of Hamburg fail food inspections. Thus, 71 percent of 208 controls initiated by the customs and the authority for consumer protection last year were objected to, Petra Grauer, wine expert of the Institute for Hygiene and ...

Death of German poisoned by zucchini sparks public health warnings

25-Aug-2015 - The death of a 79-year-old man this week has prompted health warnings in the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemburg after it appeared that he died of food poisoning from a zucchini. The man and his wife were taken to a clinic in the town of Heidenheim with stomach pains two weeks ago, where ...

Food analysis and diagnostics are hot topics at analytica China 2014

05-Sep-2014 - analytica China, International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis, Biotechnology and Diagnostics, opens its gates at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) for the seventh time from September 24–26, 2014. This year's focus topics are food analysis and diagnostics. Among ...