How chromatography helped solve a food safety crisis – includes classroom resources.
In 2008, potentially tainted milk was discovered in some of the food industry’s best known brands. Chocolate producers Cadbury and Mars pulled products from the shelves. During all of this, chemists in food analysis labs everywhere were receiving calls from concerned food manufacturers. Key to their new analytical method was chromatography.
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