Don't Miss the Nov. 8 FDA Grand Rounds when an FDA researcher unveils a new method to ensure seafood quality. Register and get CE Credit

What your colleagues are learning about FDA’s novel research on:

The use of mass spectrometry to determine seafood quality.

CE Credit Available.

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST   Register here for webcast (public attendees and FDA staff)   Presented by    Randy Self Research Chemist Applied Technology Center FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs Pacific Northwest Laboratory   About the Presentation   Sensory analysis is performed in FDA testing laboratories to determine the decomposition status of seafood samples. Current methodology to complement this testing with chemical analysis (e.g., histamine) is not always directly comparable to sensory testing.  The presentation will discuss a new method that FDA is exploring with untargeted analysis and a statistical model driven by sensory results via a script written in the R programming language. This makes it possible to generate data that are directly comparable to commonly used sensory scoring techniques.  Over time this work has the potential to inform FDA’s decision-making process by making an additional screening tool available to laboratories that do not have sensory capability, or even to remote field locations