The LC-MS/MS Essentials: Back to Food Basics webinar series is aimed at renewing, reinforcing, and rebuilding critical skills in food safety testing. Whether you are new to mass spectrometry or an experienced user, this series covers the fundamentals of the analytical procedures used to ensure food safety across the supply chain.
Designed with lab managers in mind, this series also acts as an organized training resource for onboarding new analysts, providing refresher learning, and establishing consistent competency across the team.
Food 101: An Introduction to Food Testing with LC-MS/MS
Speaker: Holly Lee, Staff Scientist, Food, SCIEX
This webinar series is designed to help food analyzers work smarter by providing the LC-MS/MS knowledge and practical skills needed to confidently obtain reliable results.
What you will learn:
- The importance of food testing in the global supply chain
- The significance of regulatory and industry standards
- How to identify residues and impurities using LC-MS/MS
- A real-world example of food contaminant analysis in operation
From Contamination to Confidence: Applications of LC-MS/MS in Food Testing
Speaker: Carlos Bueno, Senior Application Support Specialist, SCIEX
Learn how LC-MS/MS can help laboratories identify key food contaminants and overcome common testing challenges with practical solutions that boost efficiency, consistency, and confidence.
What you will learn:
- How LC-MS/MS detects various food pollutants such as pesticides, mycotoxins, veterinary medicines, and allergens
- Best-practice sample preparation procedures to achieve reliable results in complex matrices
- Why LC-MS/MS is the preferred method for sensitive and selective contamination analysis in food testing
Getting Started with LC-MS/MS in Your Lab
Speaker: Jianru Stahl-Zeng, Senior Technical Manager, SCIEX
Take the next step in your food analysis career with practical LC-MS/MS information that will help you work smarter, gain confidence, and deliver consistent results. Discover the essential principles of focused food testing and how they enable efficient, high-quality analysis.
What you will learn:
- How to choose the appropriate chromatography column for your analysis
- MRM, its benefits, and why it is the preferred method for focused quantification
- Chemical identification in LC-MS/MS data by analyzing retention duration and ion ratios
Roundtable: Fast Track to Food Analysts: Expert Tips to Troubleshoot Faster
Host: Craig Butt, Senior Technical Manager, Food and Environmental
Panelists: Holly Lee, Carlos Bueno, Jianru Stahl-Zeng
Join the panel of food testing specialists to learn how to overcome common lab challenges, minimize rework, and confidently deliver rapid, reliable results.
What you will learn:
- Expert advice for overcoming typical food testing issues and avoiding costly delays
- Best methods for managing matrix interferences and improving data quality
- Real-world insights from experienced food testing professionals
Speakers:
Holly Lee: Staff Scientist, Food, SCIEX
Holly obtained her PhD with Professor Scott Mabury at the University of Toronto, where she investigated the biological and environmental mechanisms involved in the fate of PFAS after consumer disposal.
After graduation, Holly worked as a Senior Analytical Technologist for the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks before joining SCIEX, where she has spent the last eight years in mass spectrometry research and development before transitioning to global technical marketing in food LC-MS/MS.
Carlos Bueno: Senior Application Support Specialist, SCIEX
Carlos earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 2001. Before becoming an Applications Specialist, he spent four years working in Madrid's doping control laboratory.
Carlos has been working with SCIEX as a Senior Application Support Specialist in EMEA since 2023. He has over 20 years of experience in chromatography and mass spectrometry, primarily focused on the development of applications for the food and environmental markets.
Jianru Stahl-Zeng: Senior Technical Manager, SCIEX
Jianru is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager. She has been a member of SCIEX since 2001. She was initially a member of the application support team, which included not only proteomics but also small molecule applications.
Jianru later switched to technical marketing, focusing on food and environmental applications. Since 2018, she has overseen the EMEA technical marketing group and initiatives. Jianru is also the Global Technical Leader in Food and Environmental Applications.
Craig Butt: Senior Manager, Food and Environmental
Craig M. Butt, Senior Manager of the Applied Markets group at SCIEX's Global Technical Marketing division, has more than 20 years of mass spectrometry experience.
He formerly worked at SCIEX as an Applications Scientist, where he developed both targeted and non-targeted methods in the cannabis, environmental, and food and beverage industries.
He earned his PhD in environmental chemistry from the University of Toronto, where his thesis examined the fate of poly- and perfluorinated substances (PFAS) in biological systems.
He began as an NSERC postdoctoral research fellow at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment before becoming a research scientist in the department.