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BFDA enhances Food Safety Mission with state-of-the-art technologies from Waters

Waters Corporation has announced that the Taiwan Bureau of Food and Drug Analysis (BFDA) has purchased and installed a total of four Waters® ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC®) Systems and nine Xevo™ TQ tandem quadrupole mass spectrometers to support its efforts to protect Taiwanese consumers and the country's food supply by monitoring domestically-produced and imported food sold within the country. The new instruments will be placed with regional laboratories throughout Taiwan and with the Divisions of Food Chemistry and Food Microbiology to add to existing capacity and give scientists increased access to the latest in analytical technology. These laboratories develop and validate analytical methods for testing imported foods, drugs, and cosmetics for antibiotic and residual pesticides, natural toxins, carcinogens, pathogens and other contaminants and adulterants. The agency purchased its first instruments from Waters in 2002.

The Taiwan BFDA chose Waters ACQUITY UPLC and Xevo TQ Systems based on requirements for resolution, sensitivity, compound confirmation and quantification, data accuracy, speed, and solvent savings.

In October of 2009, Waters announced the purchase of nine Waters® ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC (UPLC) Systems by the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), College Park, Maryland to support its priority to protect the U.S. food supply by monitoring domestically-produced and imported food sold in interstate commerce.