Vol 32 No 12 LCGC Europe December 2019 Regular Issue PDF

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Researchers from the Department of Chemistry at Western Illinois University (Macomb, Illinois) conducted a study to optimize the separation of 18 cannabinoids for potency testing of hemp-based products, using liquid chromatography with a diode array detector (LC–DAD). As part of our monthlong series of articles pertaining to National Cannabis Awareness Month, LCGC International spoke to Liguo Song, the corresponding author of the paper stemming from this research, to discuss the study and its findings.

Protecting your network chromatography data system (CDS) data is critical and a service level agreement (SLA) with your IT provider is vital. What should be included? Are SLAs for in-house IT and SaaS (software as a service) similar?

LCGC International spoke to Lauren Lovejoy, principal scientist in the Drug Substance and Product Analysis group at GSK (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), about the advantages of using tandem columns in sequential elution liquid chromatography (SE-LC) to investigate weak acids, neutral compounds, and permanent anions in pharmaceutical applications.