LC/MS Expert Forum Panel Discussion
Advancing Food Safety & Quality with LC/MS
Ensuring food safety and quality is more critical than ever, with increasing regulatory scrutiny, emerging contaminants, and the need for higher sensitivity and efficiency in food testing workflows. Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) plays a pivotal role in detecting contaminants, verifying authenticity, and ensuring compliance with evolving global food safety standards. However, laboratories often face significant challenges in method development, sample preparation, troubleshooting, and regulatory adherence.
What This Discussion Will Address
In this exclusive virtual Panel Discussion, our experts in food markets, workflows, analytical chemistry, and instrumentation will provide insights into:
- Emerging trends in food safety testing and how evolving regulations impact laboratories
- Government Initiatives & Funding, emerging opportunities
- Method development challenges in detecting contaminants like pesticides, antibiotics, PFAS, mycotoxins, and other food residues
- Best practices for sample preparation and selecting the right chemistries for accurate and reproducible results
- Troubleshooting common LC/MS challenges to improve efficiency and minimize downtime
- Strategies for improving sensitivity, throughput, and compliance in routine food testing workflows
Have specific challenges in your LC/MS food testing workflows? Submit your questions during registration, and our expert panel will address them during the discussion.
Presenter: Mr. Rahul Sharma (Sales Development Manager, Food and Environmental Markets, Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.)
Mr. Rahul Sharma is the Market Development Manager for Food and Environmental Markets at Agilent. He is a member of Agilent’s President’s Club and has received numerous awards for sales excellence during his two-decade-long career in the Life Sciences and Applied Markets. In his current role, he drives strategic initiatives and oversees business across agriculture, food, and environmental markets, aligning with India’s growth plan. Rahul holds a postgraduate degree in biotechnology and has completed an executive management program from IIM Kolkata.
Presenter: Dr. Prasanth Joseph (Application Engineer - LC/MS, Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.)
Dr. Prasanth is a seasoned professional in analytical instrumentation, specializing in small molecule applications. With 19 years of experience, he joined Agilent in 2015 as an Application Engineer for LC-MS/MS. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Bharathiar University, India, and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Buckingham, UK. Prasanth has extensive expertise in developing analytical methods for genotoxic impurities, extractables and leachables in pharma and food packaging, and conducting bioavailability and bioequivalence studies. His sk ills also include the analysis of phytochemicals, food residue screening, and contaminants in environmental samples.
Presenter: Mr. Vikrant Goel (Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.)
Vikrant comes with an extensive 19 years of experience working in QA/QC, R&D and Analytical roles and an expert in various LC/MS technologies. His solution-based approach has been well accepted among LC/MS fraternity from Pharma and Applied market segments, since 2004. He holds an M.tech in Biotechnology, PG Dip in Bioinformatics & B. Pharm. He joined Agilent in 2010, as a Product specialist for LC/MS, after having worked with ILS Bioservices & LabIndia Instruments. His passion towards solution, brought him back to the Application role, 6 years ago.
Presenter: Dr. Ramaprasad Ganni (Technical Support Specialist, Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.)
Dr. Ramprasad has 21 years of experience in the field of Chromatography and Column chemistries. Worked for Elsevier GmbH; Germany, and Millipore India Pvt, Ltd. Presently working with Agilent technologies; India, since 2008 in Chemistries and Supplies division. Responsible for Workflow solutions development, providing technical support, and trainings for various industries of Food, Pharma, Petroleum, Bio-technology. Experienced in developing applications, LC and GC column chemistries and technologies, Sample preparation techniques, method developments and troubleshooting the problems of various chromatography technologies such as LC, GC, Mass Spectrometry, GPC/SEC, and Preparative LC.
Presenter: Mr. Siddharth Khurana (Customer Solution Support - LC/MS, Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.)
Siddharth Khurana is a Postgraduate in Pharmacy and comes with 15+ years of diversified experience in Pharma, Application & Service Support for LCMS. For, the past 4 years, he has been working as a Field Service Engineer for PAN India and looking for LCMS products in India. Previously he had worked with Pharmaceutical R&D as a Senior Research Scientist in Fortis Clinical Research & Jubilant Generics Ltd.
