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Surrogates, Internal Standards, Isotopically labelled Standards, External Standards, Calibrants, QC Samples etc. etc. - our working lives are littered with checks to ensure that our instruments are giving us the correct results. And rightly so. But do we always use these checks correctly? Do we know what we are checking and why? Indeed, do we know how to design methods/procedures which employ a valid checking regime, often referred to as a Quality System? Let's find out.

Chris Reddy from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) spoke to The Column about the role of chromatography in the ongoing environmental analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The Purdue Research Foundation (Indiana, USA) has awarded $150,000 in investment to two companies that have licensed Purdue University Innovations, Telos Discovery Systems Inc. and bioVidria Inc. The investment is from the Emerging Innovations Fund that was setup in 2008 to accelerate the commercialization of early stage technologies in the Purdue community.

The detection and quantitation of allergens in complex cosmetics extracts using two-dimensional gas chromatography?time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC?GC?TOF-MS) is described.

Chris Reddy from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) spoke to Alasdair Matheson of The Column about the role of chromatography in the ongoing environmental analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, how GC×GC works in practice, and why this oil spill led to the return of thin layer chromatography (TLC) to his laboratory.

The hills will be alive with the sound of chromatography when the 30th International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC 2014) takes place from 14–18 September 2014 in Salzburg, Austria.

The detection and quantitation of allergens in complex cosmetics extracts using two-dimensional gas chromatography–time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC–TOF-MS) is described. In particular, variable-energy electron ionization is shown to enhance both the sensitivity and selectivity of analyses by generating mass spectra containing structurally significant fragment ions with an improved molecular ion signal.

Incognito investigates if changing the carrier gas really requires a full method revalidation.

Click the title above to open The Column February 20, 2014 North American issue, Volume 10, Number 3, in an interactive PDF format.

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Everyone loves a list. At least, the LCGC editorial team does! LCGC?s biggest stories of the year show just how varied the world of chromatography is. From Excel modeling to evaluating a calibration curve, from trends in sample preparation to poor resolution and sample recovery in UHPLC ? these popular pieces stand for their technical know-how, unique insight, and perspective.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (California, USA) has completed its acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation for $13.6 billion, following receipt of all required regulatory approval. Thermo Fisher has now established a new segment, Life Science Solutions that will be headed by Mark Stevenson, who served as CEO of Life Technologies.

Internal standards are an important tool of analytical chemists. Mary Ellen McNally offers advice for how to introduce an internal standard and how to avoid common errors.

Analytical chemists entering the work force are not always ready to face the challenges of private industry. Kevin Schug discusses how best to prepare students for the next stage of their careers.

Shimadzu has announced the opening of a Shimadzu Solution Center at its North American headquarters in Maryland, USA. Covering 4100 square foot, the facility will be used to enable collaboration between customers and the company to develop responses to demand.

Sigma-Aldrich (St Gallen, Switzerland) has been named in the ?Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World?. The list was announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

Professor Milton L. Lee of Brigham Young University in the USA was presented with the 2014 LCGC Europe Lifetime Achievement Award. Alasdair Matheson, editor-in-chief of LCGC Europe, presented the award to Lee to a packed HTC-13 conference in Bruges, Belgium, for his outstanding achievements in hyphenated chromatographic techniques and for distinguished service to the international separation science community.

In this new video from LCGC TV, Dick Henry, consultant, discusses a trend that could renew efforts towards developing novel LC stationary phases with improved selectivity, peak symmetry, and stability.

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Scientists in the USA have carried out an investigation into the variety of beverages enjoyed by the Northern Bronze and Iron Age peoples before written records began using a combination of analytical chemical techniques.1

The Column spoke to Stewart Reynolds, Senior Science Specialist at FERA and Head of the UK National Reference Laboratory for Pesticide Residues, about the challenges that food analysts face and how the standards of food analysis are being boosted to comply with internationally recognized food safety standards and EU regulations.

A team of researchers from the University of California Davis (California, USA) in collaboration with scientists in Mexico and South Korea have performed liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) to find that sugars added to proteins could be an indicator of gastric cancer.

Characterization of a whole polymer (amorphous and crystalline fractions) in a quality control (QC) laboratory is described.

Pittcon will be held from 2–6 March 2014 in Chicago, USA. Here we take a look at what to expect at the world’s largest annual conference and exposition on laboratory science.

Click the title above to open The Column February 03, 2014 North American issue, Volume 10, Number 2, in an interactive PDF format.

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Gas chromatography with electron ionization and mass spectrometry (GC–EI-MS) detection is a workhorse among analytical techniques in metabolomics.