Because of its cost, olive oil is especially susceptible to fraudulent adulteration. Many cases of adulteration are innocuous and involve someone trying to make more money by passing off cheap, inferior oils as authentic extra virgin olive oil. Other cases may be more lethal where someone with criminal intent contaminates olive oil with toxic chemicals, such as the Toxic Oil Syndrome seen in Spain in 1981. 

NMR spectra visualize the change in the Larmor frequency of each hydrogen atom in the analyte. This change is what we call the chemical shift of the signal which is dependent on electronic effects. Similar molecules show similar NMR spectra and this is another advantage of NMR spectroscopy compared to other analytical methods: Derivatives or in this case new psychological active substances or ‘designer drugs’ can be recognized as a potential illicit compound, which is what we are currently working on with police authorities in Germany. Benchtop NMR 1-855-NMREADY (667-3239) toll-free in the US and Canada

One of the questions that we always get at tradeshows and conferences is how our instrument compares to high-field data. There are significant inherent differences between low-field and high-field instruments, but the most important from a chemistry point of view are sensitivity (S/N) and resonance dispersion (signal separation). Read More.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS) are the two most used profiling methods in metabolomics. You can use both methods to identify and detect metabolites but both NMR and MS have their pros and cons.