Did someone say Christmas? Aside from presents, delicious food and fairy lights, why not treat your lab with all your chromatography essentials for a great price ahead of the new year? Our big end-of-...
There is an ever-increasing awareness of the environmental impact of our everyday activities, motivating many industries to assess the environmental impact of their current practices and build strateg...
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are semi-volatile chlorinated hydrocarbons that were used extensively in the middle of the 20th century to protect crops, livestock, and buildings from insect damage. ...
Growing international interest in electric mobility and energy storage has triggered the need for analytical testing and quality control capabilities within the battery value chain – from the extracti...
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...
Introduction With the rise of electromobility and the consequent increase in electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, the market for lithium-ion batteries (LIB) has seen consistently high growth rates ove...
Food products with high market value — like milk, honey, oil and meat — are more susceptible to adulteration. This is a long-term problem affecting the food industry, and difficult to control — especi...
Effective helium conservation is once again becoming a real need for many laboratories worldwide. If helium is still your choice for GC and GC-MS analysis and you are not willing to convert to a diffe...
Analytical testing laboratories across a variety of sectors, including food, environmental, industrial and pharma, can now meet their ever-increasing efficiency and productivity needs with a collectio...
The wait is nearly over. The GC-GC/MS team at Thermo Fisher Scientific is excited about the upcoming Innovation Summit, and I’m proud to be part of it. The virtual event, happening 8 March, will showc...
This blog post will explore a typical day in a gas chromatography (GC) lab and all that could go wrong. We know that these days, when your coworkers go on vacation, suddenly somebody else must take ov...
The first of many ambitious goals from the recent UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow is to secure global net zero emissions by midcentury. It translates to a strong acceleration toward th...
It was Pittcon 2019 when the Thermo Scientific™ TriPlus 500 Headspace Autosampler was introduced to the market of volatiles organic compounds (VOC) sampling for GC and GC-MS. Thermo Scientific TriPlus...
The deadline for oral and poster presentation submission for the Innovation Summit has been extended to 31 July to allow you more time to share with us and your colleagues what YOU'VE been doing. In S...
It’s on - we’ll be meeting up again, and this time with all your chromatography pals!At Thermo Fisher Scientific we are known for our innovation capabilities in research, and now it’s really time to s...
Courtesy of IS-X.Why is plastic — having a lifespan of several hundred years or more — widely used for disposable tools and containers? This is a paradoxical question that is hard to answer, but it pr...
In high-throughput analytical testing laboratories robust streamlined analytical and data processing workflows are key requirements for the accurate and reliable determination of trace level residues ...
Many people like a certain flavor of smokiness in food and alcoholic beverages, and certain types of wines aged in toasted oak barrels are appreciated for their smoky notes. However, the sensation is ...
Chromatographers dealing with volatile compound determination know very well how popular the static headspace technique is in many application fields since it offers benefits of ease-of-use, low cost ...
Biomarker studies using exhaled breath are rapidly emerging as a novel approach for early disease detection and precision medicine. In my last blog article - Breath Biopsy™ – A Non-invasive Tool for t...
The current worldwide pandemic has impacted every aspect of our lives, which we are struggling to bring back to what we consider ‘normal.’ We have seen an impact on our social habits, our way of worki...
Performance-enhancing drugs are substances that have the capability to improve performance in humans. In sports, those substances are sometimes referred to endogenic aids and one highly popular refere...
With roughly 50% of the world population taking prescription drugs, it is important to ensure that pharmaceutical products are safe. Nitrosamine impurities have been widely publicized recently. A year...
Research Use Only, Not for Diagnostic ProceduresWhen you think of diagnostic tests for disease and cancer, the first that probably come to mind rely on using samples of blood or tissue. While these me...
In a previous blog post, I commented on the opportunity to use modern robotic technology to make our life easier by automating low-value routine activities. Doesn’t matter if it is for housekeeping du...
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 ...
Spring is upon us and all over the world people are out in their gardens planting their seeds for harvesting in the summertime. In my garden, this is a small operation with just a few chili peppers, s...
What we learned very well during the COVID-19 pandemic is how important it is to wash our hands frequently and keep everything around us cleaned and sanitized. Nevertheless, this only reminded us and ...
In my last blog post, “Challenging pharmaceutical impurity analyses Part 1 – Derivatization – first choice or last resort?” I looked into some of the issues that could occur when using derivatization....
The characterization of the volatile fraction of a liquid or solid sample is definitely a field of gas chromatography coupled to headspace sampling technique. Static or dynamic or through SPME enrichm...
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