Food Testing: Overview of Sample preparation techniques & GC Solutions
Key Learning Points:
- Overview of available sample prep solutions for Food testing laboratory industry
- Which sample prep technique to select and for what kind of difficult food matrices & applications
- Easy and effective methods for FAME, Multiresidue pesticide Screening, PAH, PCB and Dioxins
- How to increase the lifetime of GC column when working with different food matrices
Presenter: Rahela Banu (Business Development Manager, Phenomenex India)
Rahela Banu holds a master’s degree in Micro Biology from Osmania University. She worked as a Microbiologist in Royal life sciences doing analysis of FAME by Gas chromatography from various microbial samples. Later started working with Merck as Patient Support counselor. After successful 3 years stint with them she moved to Phenomenex.
She started as an Application specialist with Gas Chromatography; Being the sole person to handle GC technique entirely for 9 years, Rahela has gained vast experience in handling customer Applications/Inquiries catering to wide extended market segments.
Rahela has traveled extensively through all parts of India reaching customers of various segments working with GC/HPLC/SPE technique as Industry Specialist; Having visited manufacturing plant of Phenomenex Torrance unit Rahela works very closely with GC developing team making a bridge between advanced technologies and customer applications.
Currently she is working as a Business Development Manager at Phenomenex India and is responsible for Seminars/webinars/training's/Global coordination/market development in all product lines that goes into this applied market segment PAN India
Presenter: Dr. Vinay Bathineni (Business Development Manager, Sample Prep, Phenomenex India)
Dr. Vinay Bathineni holds a Doctor of Philosophy – Ph.D. from JNTU University Hyderabad. He is involved in R&D, management, sales, business development, and implementing method development solutions in Clinical, Bioanalytical, and Toxicology industries.
Vinay is a University Gold medalist, and published more than 10 research papers in reputable international journals. He also speaks at diverse conferences.
Vinay started as an application specialist with Phenomenex in 2013 handling the Sample prep techniques. He is now a Business Development Manager at Phenomenex India, overseeing method development for the CRO and BA/BE industries and hosts Seminars/ Webinars/ Training/ Global Coordination for all product lines that meshes into the Clinical, BA-BE, and Toxicology market segments in PAN India.
