DeAnn Benesh, President of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, stated: “The AOAC-OMA Program sets rigorous scientific standards for methods to ensure that they demonstrate the highest quality in analytical results, apply innovative technologies, have a broad applicability, serve a critical need and demonstrate a significant improvement. The AOAC Official Methods Board has determined that based on their novel approach of confirming and identifying organisms, both new MALDI Biotyper Official Methods of AnalysisSM, AOAC 2017.09 and AOAC 2017.10, will receive the AOAC Method of the Year award.”
Dr. Daniele Sohier, Business Development Manager - Food Microbiology at Bruker, commented: “We are honoured to receive the AOAC Award for the Best Method of the Year 2017-18 in the food microbiology framework. The MALDI Biotyper shortens time-to-result in food microbiology and has broad species coverage. Implementation of the MALDI Biotyper has the potential to improve the analysis quality, shorten time-to-result and generate significant cost savings in food microbiology testing.”
Additionally, the MALDI Biotyper reference library for filamentous fungi has been updated to cover the most important taxa and species from food mycology, offering an advance for food fungal testing applications.
A dedicated workshop on using the MALDI Biotyper in combination with other technologies, a symposium on the use of high-throughput technologies in food microbiology routine testing, as well as three scientific posters showing the reliability and reproducibility of the MALDI Biotyper in studies will be displayed at this IAFP Annual meeting.