SPEctacular Begins with SPE

Researchers at Andes Ag, Inc. (Alameda, California) established a high-throughput framework for the robust and precise quantification of soil inorganic carbon (SIC) from agricultural soils using gas chromatography (GC).

Chinese researchers created a new approach for identifying and quantifying illegal additives in fruit and vegetable plums, types of often-consumed health-care foods.

A joint study between the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) compared directly measured vitamin K1 (vitK1) concentrations in healthy dogs and dogs with chronic enteropathy (CE) using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS); they also investigated whether supplementation of vitK1 in dogs with CE would significantly increase vitK1 concentrations.

A study by researchers from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and the University of Duisburg-Essen reported on the development of a GC–IMS method for the detection of nine N-nitrosamines in drinking water.