Biqualys B.V.

Biqualys is a spin-off company initaited at Wageningen University (NL) in which highly advanced analysis activities have been concentrated to serve high-end clients in SME, industry, governments and not-for-profit oganisations. Biqualys complemtens your analytical capabilities in identification of compounds, high throughput screening and quality controls in these cases where regular methods are insufficient or expensive.
Biqualys deploys the latest LC-SPE-NMR-MS and UPLC-FTMS equipment, targeted at high end users in the life sciences: feed, food and nutrition, ingredients, flavours & fragrances, agriculture, water, biotechnology, body fluids, etc. With Employees that cover over 85 years of high-level scientific experience.

Applications

Nutritional systems: authenticity and origin of raw materials, foodsafety, maturing processes, quality of food and feed, ingreditens, mixtures of juices, tracking and tracing, etc.
Organic systems: analysing the composition and concentration of flavonoids or other biocactive compounds, allergenic compounds, synthetic or natural flavours, exact ingredients list of pharmaceuticals, neutraceuticals or cosmetics, etc.
Animal systems: correlations between composition of animal products and feed, genes, medicines, hormones, etc.
Human systems: monitoring metabolic conditions over time as influenced by nutrients, medicines or stress (i.e. lipometabolomics).
Chemical systems: compostion and behaviour of coatings, crude samples, contaminated compounds, evidence for patent claims, perfumes, forensics, toxic compounds, etc.

Case studies
•Identification of unknown compounds in river
•Study on off-taste of a food component
•Identification of proteins in milk
•Research on contaminants in a pharmaceutical product
•Research on secondary metabolites in urine of healthy people
•Study on proteome of viruses
•Study on identification of metabolites of bacteria in the human gut
•Polyphenol identification methods in urine
•Study on Lipoprotein profiling and tea consumption
•Study on relationship between operating techniques and metabolites in plasma
•Effect of storability of palm oil
•Lycopene identification in a food matrix