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Let’s Have the Talk, the Procurement Talk

eProcurement, B2B, punchout, hosted catalogs. … You may have heard these terms thrown around but, for some reason, they do not sound appealing and certainly do not get much traction. Besides, what do ...

Feeling Sample Prep Burnout? Let Your GC Autosampler Help With Your Workload

Gas chromatographers know how much of their time performing analytical work is taken up preparing samples for the injection. Most of the GC analysis time often involves several manual handling procedu...

A Fully Automated MOSH/MOAH Workflow to Help You Get Reliable Results More Easily

If the analysis of MOSH/MOAH (Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbons and Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons) is a challenge in your lab, you know how complicated the sample preparation can be. The EN 16995...

How To Make 2021 the Year of Productivity

We know how challenging 2020 was for many people, personally and professionally. In our industry, we saw testing laboratories slowing down their activity and fighting to maintain productivity while co...

How to Keep Moving Forward in Challenging Times

It has been a challenging year so far. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged as a pandemic in the beginning of 2020 and has spread globally, impacting nations, businesses, and the lives of m...

A Fully Automated Method for MCPD- and GE-esters and the Importance of Glass Quality of the Used Autosampler Vials

Monochloropropanediol esters (MCPDe) and glycidyl esters (GE) are the central point of attention of the food industry. Those compounds are unwanted by-products of oil refinery and predominately occur ...

How to Improve Your ICP-MS Analysis, Part 3: Sample Preparation and Handling

In part 1 of this series, I covered the issues of contamination and sample-to-sample memory effects in ICP-MS and how you can solve them. In part 2, I moved on to the challenge of interferences and ho...

The Importance of Automation in Advancing Clinical LC-MS/MS Testing

As the analytical power of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) gains ever more recognition, a rising number of clinical laboratories are implementing it across a growing range of...

RoboTop: Automated Sample Preparation for GC and GC-MS

Why are the robots in Hollywood movies often depicted as evil? I am guessing it must be because most of the time they are pointing out our own shortcomings as humans and therefore we feel much more co...