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Brian De Borba

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Fast Determination of Anthocyanins to Authenticate Pomegranate Juice

Anthocyanins are a sub-class of naturally electron deficient and powerful antioxidants called flavonoids that are responsible for the red, orange, and blue coloration in fruits and flowers.


Sareeta Nerkar

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Pickering Laboratories - Analysis of Mycotoxins in Hemp and Hemp- Containing Edible Products

Pickering Laboratories developed an easy and sensitive method to analyze aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, G2, and ochratoxin A in hemp and hemp-containing edible products. Mycotoxins are isolated using immunoaffinity clean-up columns and analyzed with fluorescence detection. To increase sensitivity of aflatoxins B1 and G1, an in-line photochemical reactor (UVETM) is installed before the detector. This method utilizes standard HPLC equipment and allows laboratories to easily determine these mycotoxins at low ppb levels.


Saphwan Al-Assaf

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Characterization and Prediction of Emulsification Performance of Acacia Gums

The authors use GPC coupled online to multiangle laser light scattering, refractive index, and ultra violet (UV) detectors for the characterization of Acacia gum (gum arabic).


Pranathi Perati

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Dionex - Peptide Mapping of Ovalbumin

Dionex - Peptide Mapping of Ovalbumin


Cynthia Bosnak

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The Benefits of ICP-MS for the Determination of Toxic and Nutritional Elements in the Cannabis Family of Flowering Plants

This study will focus on an ICP-MS sample preparation procedure and analytical methodology optimized for both toxic and nutritional elements in dried hops, a surrogate for the cannabis family of flowering plants. It will show that the wide dynamic range of the technique allows it to be used for the simultaneous determination of parts per billion (ppb) levels of heavy metals including Pb, As, Cd and Hg, together with high parts per million (ppm) levels of nutritional elements, such as P, Ca, K and Mg.


Rick Lake

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Automated Solid Phase Extraction for Efficient Extraction of Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics from Fish

The global demand for fish as a natural source of fresh animal protein, essential fats, minerals, and vitamins continues to rise with the human population.


Dafydd Milton

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The Use of Temperature to Eliminate Organic Solvent in Analytical HPLC Methods

Increased temperature has been used to assist the elimination of organic modifier required in the mobile phase, to achieve analyte separation in pure aqueous mobile phases.


Chris Loran

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Quantitative Analysis of Pseudoephedrine Tablets by UHPLC–MS

An effective UHPLC–MS method for high throughput separation, identification and quantification of pseudoephedrine was developed on a Hypersil GOLD PFP 1.9 µm, 2.1 Ã- 100 mm column.


Jeremy Shia

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Rapid, Specific Analysis of Melamine and Cyanuric Acid in Infant Formula

This method is rapid and sensitive for the analysis of melamine and cyanuric acid simultaneously in infant formula. Using two Oasis solid-phase extraction protocols and the ACQUITY UPLC, the results are consistent with the published US FDA interim method, while demonstrating a reduced analysis time.



Matthew J. Woodcock

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HPLC Analysis of Non-volatile Analytes Using Charged Aerosol Detection

A detection method based upon aerosol charging was examined for its applicability and performance with high performance liquid chromatography.



Jonathan Beck

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Fast and Accurate Determination of Algal Toxins in Water Using On-line Preconcentration and UHPLC–HRAM–MS

The development of a column-switching technique based on on-line preconcentration and HRAM–MS to obtain fast and accurate results for the determination of algal toxins in drinking water is discussed.



J. Bauer

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Application of a GPC-LC–MS/MS Method for the Determination of 31 Mycotoxins in Edible OIls

Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) is widely used for sample clean up in mycotoxin analysis. The most commonly described methods use GPC columns packed with SX-3 BioBeads suitable for cleaning Zearalenone, Aflatoxins, and Trichothesenes from edible oils and fatty matrices. Separation of Fumonisins from the oil fraction are inadequate with this column.



Peter Földi

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Gradient Performance Tests for Reversed-Phase and Biochemical Applications using High Salt Buffers

In gradient mode, the quality of the analysis will be influenced by the performance of the proportioning and mixing of the eluents at any time during a given chromatogram.


Ewa Pruszkowski

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The Benefits of ICP-MS for the Determination of Toxic and Nutritional Elements in the Cannabis Family of Flowering Plants

This study will focus on an ICP-MS sample preparation procedure and analytical methodology optimized for both toxic and nutritional elements in dried hops, a surrogate for the cannabis family of flowering plants. It will show that the wide dynamic range of the technique allows it to be used for the simultaneous determination of parts per billion (ppb) levels of heavy metals including Pb, As, Cd and Hg, together with high parts per million (ppm) levels of nutritional elements, such as P, Ca, K and Mg.


James W. Jorgenson

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Recent Advances in Ultrahigh-Pressure Liquid Chromatography

Ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) is a technique that is experiencing continued growth due to the benefits in separation power and speed of analysis over traditional HPLC. We attempt here to give an overview of some of the advances that have occurred in UHPLC since 2003, from the standpoint of both fundamental research and the introduction of commercially-available technology.


Axel Zerrath

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Mass Analysis from Kilodaltons to Megadaltons Using Macroion Mobility Spectrometry

Mass spectrometry (MS) has advanced to analyze ever-larger biomolecules with the invention of soft ionization techniques like electrospray ionization (ESI). Although ESI has provided a method of generating ions of high mass, mass spectrometers generally suffer both lower sensitivity and lower resolution as the mass-to-charge ratio of an ion increases. To extend the mass range of ionized macromolecules beyond the limits of MS, macroion mobility spectrometry utilizes ion mobility sizing to characterize charge-reduced ESI-generated macroions from >5 kDa to beyond megadalton masses. One prominent application of macroion mobility spectrometry, highlighted here, is the high sensitivity analysis of intact proteins, antibodies, and conjugates in which molecular masses range from antibody light-chain fragments to high mass immunoglobulin multimers.


G. Engelhardt

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Application of a GPC-LC–MS/MS Method for the Determination of 31 Mycotoxins in Edible OIls

Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) is widely used for sample clean up in mycotoxin analysis. The most commonly described methods use GPC columns packed with SX-3 BioBeads suitable for cleaning Zearalenone, Aflatoxins, and Trichothesenes from edible oils and fatty matrices. Separation of Fumonisins from the oil fraction are inadequate with this column.


Kenneth Lynam

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Method Translation in Gas Chromatography

The advantages of using software to optimize GC methods with practical examples for pesticide analysis are described.


Joe Macomber

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Nanometer Internal Diameter Fused Silica Capillary Tubing

Scientists employ fused silica capillary tubing routinely in a wide range of analytical applications, encompassing GC, CE, capillary LC, and CEC. It has proven as an ideal substrate for interfacing in hyphenated techniques.


Karl-Siegfried Boos

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Control of Matrix Effects in Bioanalytical MS–MS Using On-line Multidimensional Solid-Phase Extraction

The authors discuss a solid-phase extraction (SPE) clean-up procedure for drugs present in biofluids.


Laura Chambers

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Volatile Organic Compounds in Wastewater: Performance of US EPA Method 624 on Modern GC–MS and Purge and Trap Instrumentation

US EPA wastewater method 624 Purgeables was originally published as 40 CFR Part 136 Appendix A in the mid 1980s.


Brigitte Simons

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Accelerated Discovery and Quantitation of Lipids in Complex Extracts

The authors discuss analytical methods for lipidomics.


Melanie Anderson

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Quantifying an Anthrax LF Inhibitor in Human Plasma by HPLC-MS-MS

This article describes the method development and performance characteristics of the validated LFI assay and evaluates stability in human plasma.