April 21st 2025
Flavonoids are widely used metabolites that carry out various functions in different industries, such as food and cosmetics. Detecting, separating, and quantifying them in fruit species can be a complicated process.
Multiple-Injection Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis
August 12th 2009October 2006. The authors demonstrate the use of multiple-injection affinity capillary electrophoresis (MIACE) and several variations to MIACE to determine binding constants between the glycopeptide antibotics vancomycin, ristocetin, and teicoplanin from Streptomyces orientalis, Nocardia lurida, and Actinoplanes teichomyceticus, respectively, and D-Ala-D-Ala terminus peptides.
Cambridge hospital chooses supplier for PET study
August 10th 2009LabLogic Systems have been chosen by the Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering at Addenbroke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK to supply the equipment to support the department?s metabolite analysis system for early-phase PET studies.
Radio-HPLC detector demonstrations
July 22nd 2009Chromatographers with an interest in radio-HPLC flow-through detection are invited to book their place at LabLogic Systems' demonstration tour for the Model 5 Beta-RAM, which the company says has toured the UK, Switzerland and Holland and will also appear in France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
High Speed, High Resolution of Flavanones in Citrus Juice
July 2nd 2009Flavanones are a type of flavonoids occurring widely in plants, either in the aglycone backbone form itself or as glycosides. Flavonones exist in unique forms depending on the type of fruit and can be used to indicate the type of fruit that is being analysed. The following application introduces examples of high-speed analysis of flavanones in citrus juice using the Shimadzu ultra fast LC system, prominence UFLC, and the photodiode array detector SPD-M20A, focusing on narirutin, naringin, neohesperidin and hesperitin.
Stevia Sweetener Analyses using an Agilent ZORBAX Eclipse Plus Phenyl-Hexyl Column
July 2nd 2009The FDA has no objection to Rebaudioside A having a generally recognized as safe (GRAS) status as a sweetener for food and drink.1 Stevia sweeteners may contain other steviol glycosides as well, mainly Stevioside, Rebaudioside C and Dulcoside A. Because the FDA GRAS confirmation is only for the use of Rebaudioside A at 95% purity or above in food and beverages, stevia extracts must be highly purified and characterized prior to use.
Reduced Solvent Usage and Increased Throughput for PAH Analysis Using UHPLC
July 2nd 2009Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are carcinogenic condensed ring aromatic compounds widely found as trace pollutants in waters, wastes, air particulates, soil and foods. PAHs can be routinely monitored using HPLC with a combination of UV and fluorescence detection as prescribed in EPA methods 550.1, 610 and 8310.
High Speed Separation of More Than 16 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
July 2nd 2009Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are particularly relevant in the analysis of environmental pollution because of their ubiquity, toxicity and persistence. Consequently, the PAHs have become the most intensively studied pollutants in environmental analysis.
Study of drug quality in the Indian market
June 26th 2009India is an increasingly influential player in the global pharmaceutical market. A pilot study, conducted in two major cities in India, Delhi and Chennai, explored the proliferation of substandard and counterfeit drugs in the market and discussed how the Indian state and federal governments could improve drug regulation and regulatory enforcement to combat this.
DEA Acquires Waters Instrument for Training Forensic Chemists
June 1st 2009Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) announced that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has purchased a Waters ACQUITY UltraPerformance liquid chromatograph for use in training new forensic chemists at the agency's Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Dulles, Virginia.