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Food Scientists and Technologists

Tools and Technology


Tools Include:

  • Air samplers or collectors (Air sampling systems)
  • Amino acid analyzers
  • Viscosimeters (Amylographs)
  • Anaerobic chamber (Anaerobic growth chambers)
  • Analytical balances
  • Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
  • Laboratory diluters (Automatic diluters)
  • Autosamplers
  • Microbiology analyzers (Bacterial identification systems)
  • Commercial use deep fryers (Batch fryers)
  • Nephelometers (Benchtop nephelometers)
  • Sterilization cabinets (Biological safety cabinets)
  • Tissue culture incubators (Bioreactors)
  • Blast freezers
  • Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators (Carbon dioxide CO2 laboratory incubators)
  • Color sensors (Color difference meters)
  • Colorimeters
  • Calorimeters (Computerized calorimeters)
  • Conductivity meters
  • Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters (Coulter counters)
  • Darkfield microscopes
  • Dehydrators (Dehydration equipment)
  • Juicing machinery (Dejuicers)
  • Desktop computers
  • Bench refractometers or polarimeters (Differential refractometers)
  • Oscilloscopes (Digital oscilloscopes)
  • Dehydrating machinery (Drum dryers)
  • Light scattering equipment (Dynamic light scattering equipment)
  • Thermal differential analyzers (Dynamic mechanical analyzers DMA)
  • Laboratory balances (Electronic laboratory balances)
  • Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Emulsifiers)
  • Fluorescent microscopes (Epifluorescence microscopes)
  • Extracting equipment for laboratories (Extractors)
  • Standard fermentation units (Fermenting tanks)
  • Commercial use food choppers or cubers or dicers (Food choppers)
  • Crushing machinery (Food crushers)
  • Dehydrating machinery (Food dehydrators)
  • Commercial use mixers (Food mixers)
  • Commercial use food slicers (Food slicers)
  • Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers)
  • Electrophoresis system accessories (Fraction collectors)
  • Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Freeze drying equipment)
  • Crushing machinery (Fruit presses)
  • Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
  • Gel documentation systems (Gel electrophoresis equipment)
  • Sugar analyzers (Glucose analyzers)
  • Commercial use griddles (Griddles)
  • Commercial use grills (Grills)
  • Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Heat exchangers)
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment)
  • Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges (High speed refrigerated centrifuges)
  • Homogenizers
  • Ice cream machines (Ice cream freezers)
  • Commercial use ranges (Induction cooktops)
  • Infrared spectrometers (Infrared IR spectrometers)
  • Ion chromatographs
  • Cooking machinery (Jet cooking systems)
  • Lasers (Laboratory lasers)
  • Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
  • Laboratory mills
  • Water baths (Laboratory water baths)
  • Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
  • Electronic counters (Laser colony counters)
  • Kjeldahl nitrogen determination apparatus (Macro kjeldahls)
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Commercial use food grinders (Meat grinders)
  • Cutting machinery (Meat saws)
  • Melting point recorders (Melting point apparatus)
  • Laboratory membrane filters (Membrane filtration systems)
  • Kjeldahl nitrogen determination apparatus (Micro kjeldahls)
  • Microbiological aircontrol equipment (Microbial monitoring systems)
  • Microcentrifuges
  • Commercial use microwave ovens (Microwave ovens)
  • Laboratory box furnaces (Muffle furnaces)
  • Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer (Nitrogen analyzers)
  • Orbital shaking water baths
  • Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Ovens)
  • Oxygen gas analyzers (Oxygen analyzers)
  • Personal computers
  • pH meters (pH indicators)
  • Darkfield microscopes (Phase contrast microscopes)
  • Filling machinery (Piston filling machines)
  • Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Plate heat exchangers)
  • Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Programmable incubators)
  • Crushing machinery (Pulper finishers)
  • Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Pulsifiers)
  • Commercial use ranges (Ranges)
  • Spectrometers (Reflectance spectrometers)
  • Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
  • Flask or retort units (Retort sterilization equipment)
  • Rheometers
  • Roasting machinery (Roasting equipment)
  • Vacuum or rotary evaporators (Rotary evaporators)
  • Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
  • Microplate readers (Scanning plate readers)
  • Fat extractors (Specific gravity fat analyzers)
  • Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Spectrofluorimeters)
  • Microbiology analyzers (Spiral platers)
  • Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Steam autoclaves)
  • Blanching machinery (Steam blanchers)
  • Commercial use steamers (Steam kettles)
  • Stomachers
  • Strain gauges (Strain testers)
  • Filling machinery (Stuffers)
  • Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Thermal cyclers)
  • Thermo gravimetry analyzers (Thermal gravimetric analyzers)
  • Cooking machinery (Thermal processing equipment)
  • Solution strength estimation apparatus (Torsion gelometers)
  • Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Tubular heat exchangers)
  • Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Ultraviolet UV spectrometers)
  • Packaging vacuum (Vacuum packagers)
  • Viscosimeters (Viscometers)
  • Water analysis systems (Water activity meters)
  • X ray diffraction equipment (X ray crystallography equipment)

Technologies Include:

  • Analytical or scientific software
  • BioDiscovery ImaGene
  • Image analysis software
  • Insightful S-PLUS
  • MDS Analytical Technologies GenePix Pro
  • Sensory Computer Systems SIMS
  • StatSoft STATISTICA software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • PathogenTracker
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA National Nutrient Database
  • Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word



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