Xylem's YSI Biochemistry Analyzer Ideal For Food Process Applications

The 2900 Series Biochemistry Analyzers from YSI, a Xylem brand, deliver rapid, accurate biochemistry analysis and provide several data management solutions for making process and quality assurance decisions in food process applications.

Xylem’s YSI brand will be exhibiting in booth 3417/3517 at Pittcon 2015, March 9-12, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In the manufacture and packaging of ketchup and related tomato products, L-lactate and ethanol concentrations in these complex matrices can be measured in about one minute with minimal preparation using the 2900 Biochemistry Analyzer. YSI’s unique enzyme electrode technology provides for specific lactate measurements in the range of 10 to 1335 ppm, with ethanol measured in the range of 20 to 1000 ppm. The measurement range and resolution of the YSI 2900 Series analyzer allows for rapid detection of minute changes in lactate and ethanol concentrations, which can be indicative of microbial contamination of these food products.

Measurements with the 2900 are essentially unaffected by color, turbidity, density, pH, or the presence of chemical substances. The YSI analyzer simultaneously measures lactate and ethanol after aspiration of just 15 microliters of sample, making it a very efficient process.

For more information, visit www.ysilifesciences.com.

About Xylem Analytics
Xylem’s analytics businesses are leading manufacturers of premium field, portable, laboratory and online analytical instruments used in water and wastewater, environmental, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and life science applications. The company’s meters, sensors, analyzers and related consumables are used every day by thousands of end-users worldwide to analyze and control quality in countless applications where precise measurement is required. Xylem Analytics started with the core brands of WTW, SI Analytics, Aanderaa Data Instruments, Global Water Instrumentation, ebro and Bellingham + Stanley, and has grown through a series of successful acquisitions including OI Analytical, YSI and MJK Automation. For more information, visit www.xylemanalytics.com

About Xylem
Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology provider, enabling customers to transport, treat, test and efficiently use water in public utility, residential and commercial building services, industrial and agricultural settings. The company does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands, and its people bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on finding local solutions to the world’s most challenging water and wastewater problems. Xylem is headquartered in Rye Brook, N.Y., with 2013 revenues of $3.8B and more than 12,500 employees worldwide. Xylem was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the last two years for advancing sustainable business practices and solutions worldwide.

The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all -- that which occurs in nature. For more information, visit www.xyleminc.com.