The Institute of Food Research, UK, teamed up with Oxford Instruments, Concord, Mass., to develop improved ways of testing meat in the food chain. That’s why they launched a new benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrument, Pulsar, which makes NMR spectroscopy available for routine testing.
This system allows for food manufacturers to analyze dozens of samples a day, taking 10-15 minutes per test. This makes the system ideal for high-throughput screening or pre-screening ahead of more time-consuming and expensive DNA testing.