Alpha MOS

Alpha MOS
Type	Public
Founded	1993
Headquarters	Toulouse, France
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jean-Christophe Mifsud (President) & (CEO)
Products	Analytical instrumentation
Number of employees	~73
Website	Alpha-mos.com

Alpha MOS (NYSE Euronext,^[1] A) is a company which designs and manufactures analytical instruments for chemical and sensory analysis, and more particularly odor,^[2] taste and visual analysis. The Company was created in 1993. It is headquartered in Toulouse, France and owns three subsidiaries in Hanover (USA), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai (China). Alpha MOS Electronic Nose, Electronic Tongue and Electronic Eye have various applications in food and beverage, food packaging, environment, pharmaceutical industry, cosmetics, chemicals and petrochemicals.

Products

Electronic Noses allow global analysis of odors and volatile components generated by liquid, gas or solid samples. They can use gas sensor or ultra fast gas chromatography technologies.

Electronic Tongue can characterize the full taste of liquids or solids dissolved in liquids.

Electronic Eye achieves advanced visual analysis of the overall product or focused portions. It uses high resolution imaging coupled with multivariate statistics data processing.

Range of applications

Electronic nose and electronic tongue instruments are used by Research & Development laboratories, Quality Control laboratories and process & production departments for various purposes:

in R&D laboratories for:^[3]

Formulation or reformulation of products
Benchmarking with competitive products
Shelf life and stability studies
Selection of raw materials
Packaging interaction effects
Simplification of consumer preference test

in Quality Control laboratories for at line quality control such as:

Conformity of raw materials, intermediate and final products
Batch to batch consistency
Detection of contamination, spoilage, adulteration
Origin or vendor selection
Monitoring of storage conditions.

In process and production departments for:

Managing raw material variability
Comparison with a reference product
Measurement and comparison of the effects of manufacturing process on products
Following-up cleaning in place process efficiency
Scale-up monitoring
Cleaning in place monitoring.

References

↑ "Alpha MOS listed NYSE euronext".
↑ Tagliabue, John (February 17, 2002). "THE BUSINESS WORLD; Sniffing and Tasting With Metal and Wire". New York Times,Published: February 17, 2002.
↑ http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/article-food-product-development-and-qc.aspx

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