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The study of sewage using chromatographic techniques is a rapidly expanding area that can provide insights into the consumption of illicit drugs. Measuring illicit drug concentrations can provide authorities with a close to real time identification of consumption trends and rates in specific geographical areas.

Alberta's oil sands produce 1.9 million barrels of oil each day and contributes to 55% to all Canadian crude production.1 This industrial activity poses a potential threat to the regional environment, with concerns over potential water contamination from toxic chemicals. LCGC spoke to Jonathan W. Martin, an associate professor from the Division of Analytical & Environmental Toxicology at the University of Alberta (Alberta, Canada) about the analytical challenges he faces and solves in this research.

A simple, rapid, and robust UHPLC method for the simultaneous determination of polyphenols, methylxanthines, sweeteners, and flavouring substances as well as some common preservatives has been developed using an automated method scouting and method optimization workflow.

Incognito presents his pick of the review articles that have helped him progress in his chromatography career.

The 8th Annual International Conference on Packed Column SFC (SFC 2014) will take place at the Congress Center Basel in Switzerland from 8–10 October 2014.

James Frahill, who is a Research Analyst at the Pfizer Process Development Centre (Cork, Republic of Ireland), spoke to Bethany Degg of The Column about the role of the chromatographer in the pharmaceutical process development group at Pfizer.

This article describes the advantages of miniaturizing laboratory instruments, as well as the challenges to adapt to and overcome

The International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) and GCxGC Symposium combined conference provides an excellent combination of high impact, cutting edge science, and a great social program in an interesting venue. Kevin Schug shares his thoughts about innovations in gas chromatography presented at this year's conference in Riva del Garda, Italy.

Profiling impurities in MDMA (also known as ecstasy) is essential to forensic science as different profiles can provide clues about the source. Two researchers from Michigan State University (Michigan, USA) investigated the effect of liquid–liquid extraction (LLE), headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS–SPME), and different gas chromatography temperature programmes highlighting the need for standardized procedures.

Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling and high performance liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC–MS) has been demonstrated in the routine testing of athletes for anabolic steroid esters.

A new method for the purification of adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) by two-column, size-exclusion simulated countercurrent chromatography (SEC) has been published in the Journal of Chromatography A.

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Researchers at the Universite de Montreal in Canada have developed and validated a new liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS–MS) method to identify compounds present in suspected counterfeit or even adulterated erectile dysfunction drugs. According to the study published in the Journal of Chromatography A, the method has now been introduced to the Inspectorate Laboratory Programme at Health Canada (Canada).

This webcast will begin on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 2:00 PM EDT.

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This Tuesday morning session will be presided over by Alison Danell of East Carolina University, and it will be held at 8:30?10:30 a.m. in Exhibit Hall AB.

The June 18 Wednesday morning session "The Triple Quadrupole: 35 Years of Evolution and Application to Celebrate Chris Enke's 80th Birthday" starts at 8:30 a.m. in Room 309-301. R. Graham Cooks, of Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana), will preside.

Today's workshops cover a variety of topics, including protein analysis, -omics, data analysis, a few specific areas of application, and career development.

Today?s plenary is the Biemann Medal Lecture, which will be given by Lingjun Li of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Li is awarded the 2014 Biemann Medal for the number and depth of her contributions in the field of mass spectrometric study of neuropeptides and functional peptidomics.

Among the Tuesday afternoon oral sessions taking place on June 17 between 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. in Room 314-317 is ?Fundamentals of Peptide Fragmentation.? Yu Xia, of Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana), will preside.

This Wednesday afternoon session will be presided over by Demian Ifa of York University and will be held at 2:30–4:30 p.m. in Room 307-308.

This Wednesday morning session (WOA) will take place in Exhibit Hall AB from 8:30–10:30 a.m. Mark Lowenthall of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will preside.

This Tuesday afternoon session (TOB) will take place from 2:30?4:30 p.m. in room 307-308. The session will be presided over by Bryan Fonslow of Scripps Research Institute.

The CHROMacademy technical team was recently posed with the question of the causes of baseline drift in gradient HPLC.

Chromatography troubleshooting tips from ChromAcademy.

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When developing a separation, some fundamental choices need to be made on how we might achieve the separation we require - primarily the mode of chromatography used and the way in which we intend to control and optimise the retention and separation (selectivity) of analyte components.

This Monday afternoon session, MOC, will be presided over by Gert Von Helden of Fritz-Haber University. The session will run from 2:30?4:30 p.m. in room 309-310.

Multi-detection GPC/SEC is described and new data showing how the technique is being used to determine the impact of sterilization on medical grade poly(L-lactide) is presented.