Food Lab Insights: How One Testing Lab Transformed Sample Prep

Discover how leading labs like Light Labs are optimizing food and feed analysis using advanced microwave sample preparation. From trace metals to amino acids, learn how a total workflow approach can boost throughput, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.

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Event Overview:

Efficient and reliable sample preparation is essential for food manufacturers and contract laboratories tasked with delivering accurate, regulatory-compliant analytical data. From elemental testing to nutritional profiling, laboratories must manage increasingly complex matrices while maintaining fast turnaround times and data integrity.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how microwave sample preparation technologies—including digestion, extraction, and hydrolysis—support high-throughput food and feed analysis. We’ll also address the “total workflow” approach that ultimately helps labs reduce processing time, improve data quality, and enhance operational efficiency across a wide range of applications.

Light Labs, a modern analytical testing facility committed to food safety and lab efficiency, will share how it leverages single reaction chamber (SRC) microwave technology to streamline trace metals analysis. Complementing this with multiple rotor-based microwave systems for targeted workflows like FAMEs and amino acid analysis, Light Labs will highlight how this dual approach enables it to scale operations and meet the evolving demands of industry clients and consumers.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Learn how microwave-assisted sample preparation improves throughput, accuracy, and repeatability for food and feed testing laboratories.
• Understand how SRC digestion enables complete breakdown of complex food matrices for precise trace metals analysis.
• See how high-throughput rotor-based digestion supports specialized workflows like FAMEs and amino acids.
• Gain insights from Light Labs on how integrated microwave technologies drive data quality and operational scalability in real-world applications.
  
  

Who Should Attend:

• Anyone performing or overseeing elemental analysis
• Lab directors
• Lab managers/supervisors
• Researchers
• Chemists/analysts
• Technicians/research assistants
• QA/QC managers

Speakers:

Michael Coppola
Product Manager
Milestone Inc

Michael Coppola serves as a product manager at Milestone Inc, directing product strategy, development, and market growth initiatives. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics from Central Connecticut State University. Before joining Milestone, Coppola worked in the polymer chemistry sector as a product manager, where he led efforts to commercialize nanotechnology-based additives for the paint and plastics industries. He is a named inventor on more than 60 patents and publications related to materials science, chemical formulation, and applied analytical technologies.

Lev Spivak-Birndorf
Analytical Chemist
Light Labs

Lev Spivak-Birndorf is an analytical chemist with over 20 years of lab experience focused on trace chemical and isotopic analysis. His academic background is in trace metal isotope geochemistry using chromatography and mass spectrometry to perform geochemical and cosmochemical research. He was cofounder, chief science officer and lab director of PSI Labs, Michigan’s first state-licensed cannabis safety compliance testing facility. Spivak-Birndorf’s current position is lab director of Light Labs, a food safety and quality testing startup laboratory located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work includes developing and implementing tests for a variety of potential contaminants in food products, including plasticizers, pesticides, and heavy metals.

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