■ ■ The ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector provides sensitive and selective determination of UV transparent sweeteners. INTRODUCTION Sugars are renowned for their sweet taste and are often added to manufactured foods to enhance human perception of flavor. Due to the negative health effects of excessive consumption of sugar, alternative non-nutritive sweeteners are commonly used in food and beverage prod...

Nutritive Sucking (NS) is a highly organized process that is essential for infants' feeding during the first six months of their life. It requires the complex coordination of sucking, swallowing and breathing. The infant's inability to perform a safe and successful oral feeding can be an early detector of immaturity of the Central Nervous System (CNS). Even though the importance of early suckin...