Congratulations to EJMS Editor-in-Chief, Peter Derrick, on being awarded the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry (ANZSMS) Medal; the Society’s highest award.

JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy has published many papers from Chinese scientists in recent issues. For some time we have been aware of an increasing interest in, and researchers using, NIR spectroscopy in China. This will be reflected in a special issue later in 2015.

A look at the new NIR spectroscopy products introduced at Pittcon: they're small and perhaps indicate a new direction!

Study the label of almost any food product and you’re likely to see the rather vague warning “May contain peanuts” somewhere on there, unless of course it’s a product that definitely does contain peanuts. As now revealed in a paper in the latest issue of JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, these warnings of peanut contamination could soon lose much of their uncertainty, thanks to NIR hyperspectral imaging.

The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is the world's largest amphibian (1.8 m in length and up to 40 kg). Due to its popularity both as a culinary delicacy and an ingredient in traditional medicine, it has been over-exploited and is now listed as Critically Endangered in the wild.

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