How to Detect Adulterated Milk Fat
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 — especial...
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What Good is Conserving Helium Carrier Gas Only When Your GC System is Idle?
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...
GC and GC-MS Evolution Enables Greater Uptime and Efficiency
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...
Gas Chromatographers: Mark Your Calendars to Stay Ahead
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...
A Typical Day in a GC Lab and What Can Go Wrong
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 Rapid Growth of Lithium Batteries
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...
The TriPlus 500 HS Family Grows
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...
Innovation Summit Call for Abstracts Extended to 31 July
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...
Do You Want a Date with Charlie Chromeleon at Innovation Summit?
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...
A Closer Look into Microplastics
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...
How the New Orbitrap Exploris GC-MS Can Help Enhance Quantitative Performance for Analytical Testing Laboratories
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 ...
When Smoky Wines Don’t Taste Good!
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 ...
Productivity and Results Defensibility for Forensic Labs
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 ...
Breath Biopsy™ – How Exhaled Breath Can Be Used to Uncover Disease and Cancer
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...
Fighting COVID-19? The Double Face of Ethylene Oxide (EO)
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...
Sports Doping – How Isotopes Help to Fight the Crime (Part 2)
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...
Overcoming the Challenges of Nitrosamine Analysis Using the Latest GC-MS Technology
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...
Breath Biopsy™ – A Non-invasive Tool for the Early Detection of Disease and Cancer
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...
Match the Goals of Automated Sample Prep for GC Analysis
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...
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 ...
Simplified Environmental Analysis: Method Consolidation of PAH and PCB Analysis
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...
How GC-FID Can Support the COVID-19 Emergency
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 ...
Challenging pharmaceutical impurity analyses: Part 2 – Can IC and IC-MS fill the gaps?
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....
What do you know about High Temperature Static Headspace?
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...
Challenging Pharmaceutical Impurity Analyses Part 1 – Derivatization – First Choice or Last Resort?
With pharmaceutical impurities under increasing scrutiny, recently so with the nitrosamine issues in Ranitidine and prior to that Valsartan, the question of ‘What’s in our medicines?’ has never been m...
Helium Shortage 3.0
“Helium Shortage 3.0 will likely ease in the second half of 2020, but that does not mean it’s going away anytime soon – in fact it will remain until 2021.” [www.gasworld.com]During his closing keynote...
How Modularity Delivers Innovation in the Gas Chromatography World
Since the introduction of the Thermo Scientific Trace 1300 Series GC (Gas Chromatography) in 2012, we observed a growing market acceptance for its innovative and unique modular design. Over the past y...
E-cigarettes – Are they really safe?
Are e-cigarettes really less harmful than conventional cigarettes? Influential health organizations have stated that “e-cigarettes are 95% safer than conventional cigarettes.” This claim originated fr...
Quality Concern Rises Over Valsartan Crisis
In July 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of the presence of unacceptable amounts of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) -- a potential human carcinogenic compound -- in some batches ...
Robotics in your life? It is possible!
Time is money! And this is particularly true when productivity is of primary concern in any type of activity -- whether in our professional or private life.Can you imagine our future daily life withou...
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