Pesticide Residues & Fumigants Edition
Food Safety Webinar Series: When Food Meets the Lab
Food testing in the region still revolves around “legacy” contaminants that decide release, rejection, and recall discussions - veterinary drug residues, pesticide residues and fumigants, and toxic elements including species-sensitive forms, in different food matrices. This 3-part series is built for audiences where regulatory expectations reference Codex-based frameworks, country-specific legislative guidelines, and import/export-market requirements that influence testing scope, reporting limits, and confirmation criteria. Each webinar focuses on the analytical factors that drive outcomes: matrix effects and co-extractives, trace-level quantitation, transition/ion-ratio checks, interference control, and reportable result logic.
Keynote expert speakers will set the regulatory context, give a glimpse of the current trends, and future implications. Agilent workflow segments map these needs to sample preparation nuances, LC-MS/MS for multi-class residues, GC-MS/MS and headspace GC for residue/fumigant markers, and ICP-MS plus LC-ICP-MS for heavy metals and speciation, including QC structures and data review patterns used in high-throughput labs, to name a few.
Webinar Series Details
- Register once to attend the complete 3-part series
- Submit your questions beforehand
- Access recorded sessions anytime within one year
- Certificate of attendance will be provided to all attendees
Part 2: Pesticide Residues & Fumigants Edition
Pesticide residue testing is shaped by Codex/EU-aligned expectations that frequently drive import decisions, while fumigant markers remain high-scrutiny topics for ingredients and finished foods, especially in spice, grain, seed, and produce supply chains. This webinar connects the regulatory context to method choices and result interpretation: broad-scope multi-residue coverage versus matrix complexity, QuEChERS-based extraction and cleanup, split-platform workflows (LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS). For fumigants, the focus includes sample handling for volatility, targeted measurement approaches for ethylene oxide/2-CE and phosphine-related testing where relevant, and reporting pitfalls that trigger disputes.
Presenter: Dr. Vandana Tripathy (Principal Scientist & Network Coordinator, AINP on Pesticide Residues, ICAR-IARI; FSSAI Scientific Panel on Pesticide Residues, India)
Presenter: Dr. Yu-Feng Zhang (Application Engineer, Agilent Technologies, Singapore)
