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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, delivering insight and innovation toward improving the quality of life. Agilent instruments, software, services, solutions, and people provide trusted answers to customers' most challenging questions. The company generated revenue of $6.83 billion in fiscal 2023 and employs approximately 18,000 people worldwide. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com. To receive the latest Agilent news, subscribe to the Agilent Newsroom. Follow Agilent on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook

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Established in 1985, at Restek we are dedicated to providing our clients and customers with the highest quality chromatography supplies and customer service available. We offer a wide range of GC Columns, LC columns, GC/LC accessories and reference standards, as well as products for air sampling and sample preparation.

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SCIEX empowers our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization. With groundbreaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support, SCIEX has been at the forefront of the field for over 50 years. Since the launch of the first-ever commercially successful triple quadrupole in 1981, we continue to develop technologies and solutions that influence life-changing research and outcomes.

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Shimadzu as a worldwide leading manufacturer of analytical instrumentation provides essential tools for quality control of consumer goods and articles of daily use, in food, beverages and agriculture as well as in all areas of environmental and consumer protection. Shimadzu´s innovative solutions in field of atomic- and molecular spectroscopy, liquid- and gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, TOC analyzers and material testing equipment ensure the highest level of food quality and food safety.

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Verder Scientific combines the know-how of six renowned developers and manufacturers of scientific equipment: CARBOLITE GERO, ELTRA, RETSCH, MICROTRAC, QATM and ERWEKA are among the leading specialists in their respective fields of activity which are Heat Treatment, Elemental Analysis, Milling & Sieving, Materialography, Particle Characterization and Pharmaceutical Testing. We can assist you in R&D, quality control and small-scale production of food and beverage products.

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LECO leads in GC-MS innovation, pioneering research and new workflows for over 20 years. Our technology isn't just for research—it's transformative for routine labs wanting to gain deeper insights and faster results in food residue and contamination analysis, including MOSH/MOAH and pesticides. Featuring GCxGC, TOF-MS, HR-TOF-MS, and continuously evolving software, our solutions tackle complex matrices with ease, and excel at elucidating previously unknown analytes in challenging samples. While others stick to simple analyses, we embrace the toughest challenges! Discover how LECO can help you to drive our analysis forward! Visit us at booth 37.

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Biotage is the Global Go-To Separations Company, supporting customers from drug discovery and development through to diagnostics and analytical testing with intelligent and sustainable workflow solutions. Our expertise and top-tier separation solutions play a key role in streamlining our customers’ workflows and improving their outcomes.

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At Bruker Applied Mass Spectrometry we specialise in providing unique solutions to our customers in industrial, government and academic settings within the food, environmental, forensics and clinical research, and industrial markets. Our state-of-the-art products and solutions address the rapidly evolving needs in analytical areas such as characterisation, safety, authenticity, adulteration, QC of starting and finished goods.

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Merck KGaA Darmstadt, Germany is a leading company in offering top-quality products for analytical lab work in the F&B, cultured meat and plant-based testing markets, committed to uniquely support your work. With proven regulatory expertise and a dedicated portfolio of the most trusted tools and services covering R&D and manufacturing QC:
- Supelco® analytical reagents & reference standards
- Columns and Solvents
- Standard-setting Millipore® solutions
- Milli-Q® best-in-class laboratory water

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R-Biopharm AG is one of Germany's leading biotechnology companies and sees itself as a pioneer for health and quality of life. With excellent solutions for food and feed analysis, nutrition care and clinical diagnostics, it aims to provide precision, safety and certainty – in prevention, therapy and healing. R-Biopharm is the world market leader in test systems for allergen analysis and combines development, production and sales under one roof.

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Our major focus is the efficient automation of complex workflows in the laboratory. Sample preparation and analysis techniques of GC-MS and LC-MS are integrated into one workstation. We develop hardware and software which enables time efficient design of the workflows. Our product range includes the CHRONECT Workstations for MOSH/MOAH for mineral oil contaminants; MCPD for MCPDs and glycidols; analysis of Phtalates in edible oil; and other solutions for food analysis using LC-GC technology.

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Waters is a global leader in analytical instruments, consumables, and software that power labs worldwide to improve human health and well-being. We ensure the efficacy and safety of medicines, the purity of food and water and the quality and sustainability of materials found in everyday products. We operate in over 35 countries around the globe. And we are very proud of our award-winning culture and products and have been recognized for our Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impact.

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AFFINISEP designs and produces innovative sample preparation kits for life sciences, food safety and environmental analysis. AFFINIMIP®SPE, based on molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), are ready-to-use kits for food and feed analysis such as PAHs in oils, (Multi)Mycotoxins, drug residues (Chloramphenicol, Beta-agonists), Pesticides (glyphosate), Bisphenols, Estrogens. AttractSPE®Disks are designed for the extraction contaminants from large volume of water with high flow rates.

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BIPEA is a scientific and independent non-profit organization providing proficiency testing programs and external reference materials for testing laboratories concerned by quality control and wishing to evaluate their analytical accuracy. Present in more than 160 countries worldwide, our services cover different fields like cereals, agro industry, environment, cosmetics, pharmaceutics and surface. We offer more than 200 regular programs in microbiology, physics, chemistry and sensory.

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CEM Corporation was founded in 1978. For over 40 years we have designed and developed laboratory instrumentation and scientific methods (both microwave-based and non-microwave technologies) that are used by major companies, prestigious research institutes, and universities around the world. We are a private company with global headquarters near Charlotte, North Carolina, along with offices in England, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Singapore, and Ireland. Our major products provide unique solutions for compositional analysis of food and chemical samples, acid digestion for elemental analysis, and chemical synthesis of peptides and small molecules.

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Established in 2015, DSP-Systems is a pioneering force for a.o. PFAS and Dioxin analysis in the European laboratory landscape. With a passionate team of four dedicated professionals, we are committed to empowering laboratories across Europe and North America with cutting-edge sample preparation systems and comprehensive support services. We specialize in distributing and maintaining state-of-the-art sample preparation systems from renowned manufacturers in Japan (Miura) and Canada (PromoChrom).

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As a leading provider of analytical solutions for GC/MS and LC/MS laboratories, GERSTEL provides comprehensive and reliable support throughout the process of automating your sample preparation, introduction, and/or the complete analysis. We start by analyzing your requirements and generating proposals, followed by installation, training and support, always focusing on your needs. We look forward to discussing your requirements and your ideas with you at RAFA.

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HPC Standards is an ISO 17034 accredited manufacturer and distributor of high-purity analytical standards for residue analysis in food and feed, specialized in pesticides, veterinary products, metabolites and stable isotope-labelled derivatives.

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Since 1988 Milestone helps chemists providing the most innovative technology for metals analysis, direct mercury analysis and applying microwave technology to extraction, ashing and synthesis. We are the acknowledged industry leader in microwave instrumentation technology holding over 50 patents, 20000 sample preparation instruments and 2500 direct mercury analyzers worldwide, covering government, academic, contract, and manufacturing industries. Our expertise makes us a trusted partner.

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MOBILion is advancing separation science and unraveling complex analyses with product commercialization based on Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulation (SLIM) platform technology. Integrated with mass spectrometry, this technology provides higher resolution, faster and more reproducible analysis for characterization and deeper insights of molecules in biologic therapeutics, discovering biomarkers, improving the accuracy of diagnostics tests, and ensuring food and environmental safety.

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ProGnosis Biotech is a biotechnology company established in 2011 and based in Greece. It develops and manufactures in-vitro testing technologies for various markets, including clinical, food safety and veterinary diagnostics. The company also develops its own antibodies internally, as well as reading hardware and software solutions. Through extensive R&D it creates accurate and reliable ELISA and Lateral Flow tests and exports its products to a network of over 70 countries.

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TOFWERK is making the world a cleaner place through innovative solutions for chemical analysis. We design, manufacture, and optimize ultra-sensitive, mobile mass spectrometers to comprehensively characterize the composition and purity of samples and the health of environments.

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Founded in 1884 with our beginnings in the USDA and US FDA, AOAC INTERNATIONAL is an independent, non-profit membership association of analytical science professionals in government, industry, and academia worldwide. Our mission is to advance food safety and product integrity through standards, validated test methods, and laboratory quality programs. We publish outcomes, including Official Methods of AnalysisSM, in the Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL and provide laboratory proficiency testing programs. AOAC also facilitates collaboration and training of scientists and other stakeholders to address challenges with sustainable analytical solutions.

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AOAC Europe brings since 1983 together government, industry, and academia to establish standard methods of analysis that ensure the safety and integrity of odds and other products that impact public health around the world.

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RAFA 2024 is held under auspices of the Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic, Zdeněk Nekula

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