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Raising the Bar in Performance is a free seminar to be hosted by Thermo Fisher Scientific at its Hemel Hempstead facility in the UK on 13 November 2008...

Raising the Bar in Performance is a free seminar to be hosted by Thermo Fisher Scientific at its Hemel Hempstead facility in the UK on 13 November 2008...

Agilent Technologies has stepped in to help China following melamine being found in milk and milk products in China, which led to the tragic death and hospitalization of children...

Hian Kee Lee from the National University of Singapore is at the cutting edge of developing an array of simple and ?environmentally friendly? sample preparation techniques for environmental analysis, writes Alasdair Matheson.

Separation techniques will be key in future research following the discovery of a link between arsenic in drinking water and type 2 diabetes...

In an attempt to demonstrate elements of its environmental responsibilities ELGA Process Water is offering to recycle old ELGA LabWater purifiers free-of-charge...

The US EPA has approved Dionex's reagent-free ion chromatography systems with eluent regeneration as an alternative test procedure for methods 300.0 and 300.1.

Phenomenex, Inc., (Torrance, California) has been named one of the 15 best small workplaces in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal.

Pittcon and Wiley-Blackwell announced that they will produce four webinars in 2008-2009 to kickoff  the new "Wiley-Blackwell/Pittcon Webinar Series."

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (San Jose, CA), t will host an informative seminar on the latest advances and applications for its vast range of GC products.

Research by scientists from University College London (UCL) and Tel Aviv University shows that the tuberculosis infection is 3,000 years older than was previously imagined and that TB in people evolved before bovine TB.

A research group from BRGM (Orleans, France) and Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris, France) used terbutylazine molecularly imprinted polymers following a pressurized liquid extraction step to remove interfering compounds from soil extracts containing the herbicide atrazine.

Researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and Universität Dortmund (Dortmund, Germany) used a molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) solid-phase extraction method in the analysis of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in environmental water samples.

Paul A. Wilks, Jr. died Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire after a brief illness. He was 85 and lived an active and productive life until the end.

Researchers from Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroshima Prefectural Police Headquarters (Hiroshima), Tokai University School of Medicine (Kanagawa, Japan), and GL Sciences Inc. (Saitama, Japan) developed a spin column device packed with octadecyl silane-bonded monolithic silica for extracting amphetamines and methylenedioxyamphetamines from urine.

The Pittsburgh Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) announced the opening of registration for Pittcon 2009 short courses March 7-13.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California) announced that a method that uses the company?s equipment for detecting melamine and cyanuric acid in food matrixes was described in the U.S. FDA?s Laboratory Information Bulletin Number 4396, May 2007.

Researchers from Universita degli Studi di Parma (Parma, Italy) used immunomagnetic beads to extract trace peanut allergen protein Ara h3/4 from breakfast cereals.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) has created a specialized training program to address the current melamine crisis in China.

Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) has joined the BioIT Alliance, an initiative spearheaded by Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington) that involves more than 80 pharmaceutical, biotech, laboratory instrument, and software companies working together to advance personalized medicine.

Scientists from Hoshi University (Tokyo, Japan) and the National Research Institute of Police Science (Chiba, Japan) employed stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) and thermal desorption gas chromatography?mass spectrometry (GC?MS) for analyzing 5-chloro-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)phenol, otherwise known as triclosan, in river water samples.

Novasep has added a current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) pilot-scale continuous chromatography system in its facility in Chasse sur Rhone, France.

Universal quantification using ELS detection and real-time response control

Thermo Fisher Scientific showcased its comprehensive laboratory instrumentation and informatics solutions for food, beverage and agricultural applications at the 2008 Association of Analytical Communities (AOAC) annual meeting and exposition at the end of September...

Bruker Daltonics announces ETD II, a next-generation ETD (electron transfer dissociation) module for its HCTultra™ high capacity ion traps.

The Swedish National Food Administration in Uppsala and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have been looking at the potential toxicity of musks following their discovery in human milk, when mothers are breastfeeding...

The following question and answer were taken from LCGC Europe's "CE Currents" column (1). How should I approach method development? If possible request any details of sample stability, pKa, and solubility in different solvents and pH ranges. Information on solvents used in HPLC can also be useful.

Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) is a powerful tool for the characterization of molecules differing in size and molar mass. It is widely used and well known for the determination of molar mass distributions and molar mass averages. For membranes GPC/SEC is a useful characterization method as it can measure the membrane characteristic pore size distribution, average pore size and molecular cut-off significantly faster than other methods.

Transforming "standard" gradient HPLC systems into extremely fast gradient systems is readily achievable with proper application of chromatographic principles, particularly temperature control, combined with utilization of advanced HPLC columns. Bottom line: You don't have to buy a new LC to achieve ultra high quality and speed!

Detection of Mycotoxins in Nuts by Shodex columns