The uncertainty in the market around the helium shortage continues. Industries, hospitals and scientific laboratories relying on helium gas are experiencing — since mid-2021 — the fourth wave of the s...
We are all familiar with the high-calorie dishes during the holidays. And many of them are made with meat, adding fat as well. That`s why a lot of people go vegan in January. But are you sure you want...
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chlorinated hydrocarbons that were used throughout the 20th century for a wide range of industrial and commercial applications, including as pl...
Disruption in the helium supply chain continues to pressure analytical laboratories to find alternative solutions for their carrier gas requirements. The choice of the most suitable carrier gas for a ...
The food industry spends a lot of time and effort analyzing products for their flavors and off-flavors. This analysis is very important since we all like our products to consistently taste the same. I...
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...
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...
If Chlorinated Paraffins (CPs) are a challenge in your lab, you know how time-consuming obtaining reliable data is. Why is it so complex? It all starts with the actual legislation on the determination...
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...
For years, laboratory professionals gained knowledge through hands-on experience, personal interactions and discussions at forums, symposiums, workshops and seminars. Not much had changed since I emba...
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and semi-volatile organic compounds (sVOCs) are all around us, emitted by industrial chimneys and vehicle exhaust pipes, as well as materials such as paints, cleaning...
Why is this the holy grail? We all know food samples are tricky. There are a lot of different matrices, analytes, contaminants and sample preparation methods to consider in food analysis, making this ...
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 ...
[caption id="attachment_22778" align="alignright" width="1020"] Orbitrap Exploris GC 240[/caption]Although the technological principles that underlay its conception date back to 1923, when Kingdon fir...
“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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 referen...
The 2019 Dioxin Conference saw the scientific community come together in Kyoto, Japan during the week of 25th August to discuss the latest research findings on dioxins, dioxin-like compounds and persi...
2019 marked a very important year for Japan with the start of the new era called Reiwa on May 1st. The new era coincides with the day on which Emperor Akihito's eldest son, Naruhito, ascended the thro...
As the summer movie blockbuster season gets earlier and earlier each year, the onslaught of superheroes is already upon us. One thing that is reiterated in each movie is something along the lines of “...
Are you convinced that your glass vial is really inert and releases every trace of compound you put in it for further analysis?An instrument -- whether it is an LC or a GC -- will only detect what goe...
The year is well under way and people and companies have settled into their daily routine. All labs, and especially routine contract testing laboratories, need to sustain high productivity. When it co...
Potentially dangerous contaminants can enter the food chain in a variety of ways – from the inappropriate use of pesticides on crops, to accidental contamination during processing, shipping and storag...
The recent GrowUp Conference in September was not just another gathering of a few thousand conference attendees at just any trade show; it was a key event for the burgeoning Canadian cannabis industry...
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