Alpha MOS is a compagny which designs and manufactures analytical instruments for chemical and sensory analysis, and more particularly odor , taste and visual analysis.
The Compagny 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

Electronic nose

An electronic nose is a device intended to detect odors or flavors.Over the last decade, “electronic sensing” or “e-sensing” technologies have undergone important developments from a technical and commercial point of view...

 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

Electronic tongue

The electronic tongue is an instrument that measures and compares tastes.Chemical compounds responsible for taste are perceived by human taste receptors, and the seven sensors of electronic instruments detect the same dissolved organic and inorganic compounds. Like human receptors, each sensor has...

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:

• 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.

External links

In Good Taste - PMPS

Formulation Development Options to the Clinic: Strategies for getting to Phase I quicker and saving API

Pharmaceutical Analysis: Latest Trends in Taste and Flavor Assessment in Drug Product Formulations, LC GC North America Sniffing out pathogens - Food Technology

E-nose how to sniff the good from the bad - LabTechnologist.com

The nose knows - Inform Magazine