not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources alpha mos news newspapers books scholar jstor free images march 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message alpha mos type public founded 1993 headquarters toulouse france area served worldwide key people jean christophe mifsud president & ceo products analytical instrumentation number of employees 73 website alpha mos.com alpha mos nyse euronext 1 a is a company which designs and manufactures analytical instruments for chemical and sensory analysis and more particularly odor 2 taste and visual analysis . the company 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 . contents 1 products 1.1 range of applications 2 references 3 external links products edit electronic noses 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 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 edit 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 3 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 . references edit alpha mos listed nyse euronext . tagliabue john february 17 2002 . the business world ; sniffing and tasting with metal and wire . new york times published february 17 2002 . http www.laboratoryequipment.com article food product development and qc.aspx external links edit 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 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alpha mos & oldid 638936723 categories technology companies established in 1993technology companies of francehidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from march 2011all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 december 2014 at 18 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view