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The LCGC Europe news update from October 2 2014.

The 2014 Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition (EAS), taking place November 17?19 in Somerset, New Jersey, promises attendees a comprehensive program of educational and networking opportunities for analytical scientists. In advance of the event, LCGC spoke to EAS President Anne-Fran?oise Aubry, and EAS Program Chair Andrew V. Teplyakov about what attendees can expect this year.

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Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe 2014 Application Notebook, Vol 27 No s10, in an interactive PDF format.

How does a GC system set and control gas pressures, flows, and carrier gas velocities electronically?

Have you wondered how your GC system sets and controls gas pressures, flows, and carrier gas velocities electronically? Here, we describe the requirements for and the operation of electronic gas control systems for GC columns and detectors.

Confidential 2015 New Column and Sample Preparation Introduction Information

LCGC 2015 Editorial Calendar

What symptoms might indicate we have an injection problem?

Both the volume of the sample injection and the solvent in which the sample is dissolved can affect the appearance of the chromatogram.

Professor Wolfgang Lindner spoke to Kevin A. Schug about his inspiring and influential career in chromatography.

The quantification of proteins in a complex biological sample is an important and challenging task. Mass spectrometry (MS) is increasingly used for this purpose, not only to give a global survey of the components and their amounts, but also to precisely and accurately quantify specific target proteins.

Confidential 2015 New Gas Chromatographs, Systems and Accessories Introduction Information

In this article, two sample handling and sample preparation methods for saliva samples are presented and discussed. Both methods were applied for determining the presence of lidocaine in saliva.

We recently spoke to Gary Duncan and Wendy Russell of the Rowett Institute of Nutrition & Health in Aberdeen, Scotland, about the significance of phytochemical bioavailability to human health and the important role of liquid chromatography linked to tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS-MS) in their research.

How to spot weaknesses in methods before problems occur

A new, single method to replace the two-method approach using EPA methods TO-15 and TO-13A to analyze both volatile and semivolatile organic compounds in air.

Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe October 2014 regular issue, Vol 27, No 10, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America October 2014 regular issue, Vol 32 No 10, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the October 2014 issue of Current Trends in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 12, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

Click here to view the complete E-separation Solutions newsletter from September 30, 2014.

Whether your GC instrument has been shut down for a couple of days or been sat gathering dust in a corner for a year, follow our quick checklist to get you up and running.

Waters Corporation (Massachusetts, USA) has opened a new custom-built mass spectrometry headquarters in Wilmslow, UK. The new headquarters took less than two years to construct from the initial ground breaking to completion, and brings together existing centres in the region consisting of more than 500 employees.

The LCGC Europe news update from September 25 2014.

Waters Corporation (Massachusetts, USA) has opened a new custom-built mass spectrometry headquarters in Wilmslow, UK. The new headquarters took less than two years to construct from the initial ground breaking to completion, and brings together existing centres in the region consisting of more than 500 employees.

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Scientists in Vietnam have performed high?resolution gas chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRGC?HRMS) analysis of breast milk to determine the level of dioxin and furan exposure around the Da Nang Agent Orange hotspot in Vietnam.1 Agent Orange contamination is associated with elevated and persistent levels of dioxins and furans in the environment and are associated with the occurrence of birth defects among other side effects.

Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sigma-Aldrich (Kansas City, Missouri, USA) for approximately $17 billion (€13.1 billion).