Shallot Holmes and the food detectives
Welcome to the "Shallot Holmes and the Food Detectives" blog
Shallot Holmes developed a name for himself already in his pre-teen years thanks to his sharp mind and investigative nature. He was the shallot that could most frequently discover who had just cut up another member of the onion community by carefully performing tears trace analysis on sleeping chefs. Shallot Holmes was inspired to officially pursue a career as a food detective when overhearing his parents discussing a notorious case of food fraud, mainly the addition of horse meat to lasagna that was supposed to contain ground beef only. Shallot Holmes is well educated in all methods used in food analytics.
Shallot Holmes post overview
The wisdom of using NIR to monitor meat processing
It’s Nancy Beef’s birthday and the food detectives celebrate by letting her lead a case on quality control at a meat processing plant. She is excited to propose NIR technology as an ideal, fast quality control method for meat products.
Saying yes to non-protein nitrogen determination in milk
Shallot Holmes tries to dissolve the boredom that has settled over his team by taking on a case of non-protein nitrogen determination in milk samples.
Can NIR help profits in palm oil mills?
After integrating NIR technology directly at the production lines of a palm oil mill a while ago, the detectives head over to Colombia to see how the NIR system is performing for their client.
The detectives hydrate their knowledge on hydrolysis for fat extraction
An unfortunate client has been duped into accepting crude fat extraction methods for quality control of his confectionary, baked goods and candy products. Faced by the imminent closing of his production processes by government agencies, he turns to the five detectives for help.
