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Discover Deeper Insights Into Your Sample

In my last blog post, “Looking for Certainty,” I took a closer look at the importance of data certainty and how it’s critical to all applications, but especially in contaminant testing. The importance...

Penguins, POPs and Pandemic

Like Batman and Robin, or Han Solo and Chewbacca, combining gas chromatography with Orbitrap technology was always going to be a winning combination. With needle-sharp chromatographic peaks and high m...

Can I get a burger with some lead, chromium, mercury and arsenic, please?

Meat is an essential nutritional source of protein for humans who choose to consume it and can provide high biological protein, vitamins, and essential minerals such as iron and zinc. People that are ...

Why are two analytical columns better than one for pesticides analysis?

Liquid chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (LC-MS/MS) systems started to become more widely used for the analysis of pesticide residues around the year 2000. Availability of this advanc...

Micro SPE Providing Mighty Productivity in Pesticides Analysis

The Pesticides Analytical Challenge Laboratories involved in pesticide residue analysis in foods are often challenged to analyse hundreds of different pesticides in hundreds of different sample types ...

Do we have to live with glyphosate?

My health kick-started, as for many I’m sure, at the beginning of the New Year when I decided that I would ditch the refined sugar and saturated fat diet I’d become so accustomed to over the past few ...

A Commitment Realized: New Optimized and Standardized Solution for Polar Pesticides Analysis Launches

These were not empty words. At the 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA) which was held in early November, we launched the Thermo Scientific™ Anionic Pesticides Explor...

Pesticides on your plate!

Experts recommend fresh fruits and vegetables for healthy lifestyles. Monitoring programs detect a high number of different chemical residues in foods. Individually the pesticides are claimed to be sa...

Pesticides Method Validation: As Valid as You Think?

Recently my colleagues at the Thermo Fishers Scientific Customer Solution Centre in Beijing encountered some challenges with the validation of new methods for the quantitation of polar pesticides in f...

The Unofficial Guide to EPRW for Those Who Missed It!

Were you fortunate enough to attend 12th European Pesticides Residue Workshop (EPRW) during 22nd-25th May 2018 in Munich Germany? If you were one of the lucky 560 delegates then I am sure you will agr...

Should we worry about pesticides in baby food? An area to monitor.

Young children and babies are most vulnerable to pesticides. While this seems like a strong generalization, given that pound for pound children breathe more air, drink more water, and eat more food th...

Updated EU Guidelines for Identification of Pesticides: A Step Towards Harmonisation?

The correct identification of pesticide residues in food by mass spectrometry is a fundamental requirement for laboratories to produce accurate and valid results that protect consumers and support int...

Christmastime, mistletoe and…. pesticides? Is Christmas toxic?

It’s here! However you spend your holiday season, it is a time for family, tradition, giving. It is thought our modern Christmas celebrations were formed in the 19th Century although some have deeper ...

Is there really an increasing number of pesticides in food?

I recently read an article titled, “Nearly half of British Foods contain pesticide residue,” in the New Food Magazine. The article was in response to the recent release of the Expert Committee On Pest...

Fipronil: Better on Your Dog than in Your Breakfast

Fipronil may be effective at controlling fleas on your dog, but it is a toxic insecticide which you definitely do not need in your scrambled eggs.Fipronil sends an insect’s central nervous system fata...

Interview with an Expert: Lukasz Rajski from EURL-FV Discusses Pesticide Analysis Utilizing HRAM Orbitrap Technology

Łukasz Rajski works in EURL-FV, an EU reference lab, while finalizing his Ph.D. thesis. His focus is pesticide analysis of fruits and vegetables using high resolution accurate mass spectrometry (HRAM)...

5 Reasons to Adopt Orbitrap Technology in Your Pesticide Lab

You are using triple quadrupoles today, and they are fantastic instruments, but did you know that Orbitrap can quantify as well as a triple quad? It can also do a lot more you’re missing out on.Ready ...

LC-MS Pesticide Analysis in 5 Minutes

YOUR TASKYour daily work consists of monitoring hundreds of pesticides in food. You have a generic LC-MS method for the analysis of hundreds of pesticides in a single run. Is your method sufficiently ...

Why Dr. Susanne Ekroth Switched to Q Exactive Focus for Pesticides Analysis

How did you get involved in science?In school, I was fascinated by the fact that no matter how much you learned about chemistry, there was always so much more to learn. You´ll never get bored! Growing...

Analysis of the Pesky Polar Pesticides: In the News, but What’s the Answer?

During the last 15 years or so there have been substantial improvements in the ability to screen pesticide residues in food. Typically 10 times more analytes, at 10 times lower concentrations, with mo...

How to Find the Most Suitable Method for the Analysis of Pesticides

When you sit down to lunch do you ever wonder which pesticides, if any, may be present in your food? Food safety analysts responsible for the control of pesticides in food samples have to ask a simila...

Charlie and his GC-MS/MS Partner vs. Dietary Supplements

Whether we like it or not, pesticides are used on crops all around the world; according to the U.S. EPA, in 2006 and 2007 over five billion pounds of pesticides (more than two million metric tons) wer...

Is Orbitrap GC-MS the Final Piece in the Pesticides Screening Jigsaw?

It was around the early 2000s, when I was working at the UK Environment Agency, that I became aware of the potential of high resolution accurate mass (HRAM) mass spectrometry for screening pesticides ...

Cocktails and Pesticides

You may have celebrated the festive period with a cocktail or two. If you did, which pesticides did you possibly consume? The answer may depend on whether or not your cocktail was embellished with sli...

1,4 Dioxane and the Environment

I recently came across a National Science Foundation video (link to NSF page with video) about 1,4 dioxane in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River Basin. This compound is a synthetic industrial chemical t...

Man Charged With Blackmailing the Dairy Industry by Threatening to Use Compound 1080!

On October 13, 2015, a man in New Zealand was charged with blackmail after allegedly threatening to poison infant formula with Compound 1080 in an attempt to extort money from the dairy industry.In No...

Unknowns and HRAM – Can I Search, Quantify or Both?

The use of high resolution accurate mass spectrometry (HRAM) is a well-established technique, mainly for its utility in the determination of unknown contaminants. A recent publication by Leon Barron f...

Pesticide Residues Analysis: Which Workflow Step is the Weakest Link?

Pesticide testing laboratories are under ever-increasing pressure to analyze a greater number of pesticides with diverse physico-chemical properties in shorter turnaround times. Adding more pesticides...

Did Mass Spectrometry Just Save My Liver?

I was recently researching a few dietary supplements that I was considering adding to my daily routine, and my personal research led me right back to my work: mass spectrometry.As both Katerina Maštov...

Can Bees Be Getting Buzzed from Neonicotinoid Pesticides?

Bee colony collapse has become a popular topic in the news lately; I noticed it was mentioned in an episode of the TV show Elementary that my mother was watching the other day. The story focused on th...

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