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...