Waters and Restek have entered into a co-marketing agreement aimed at food safety laboratories and promoting the use of Waters gas chromatography–mass spectrometry instruments with Restek GC consumables.
Waters (Milford, Massachusetts, USA) and Restek (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA) have entered into a co-marketing agreement aimed at food safety laboratories and promoting the use of Waters gas chromatography–mass spectrometry instruments with Restek GC consumables.
“We are delighted to enter into this agreement with Restek,” said Jeff Mazzeo, Vice President, Marketing, Waters Corporation. “Like Waters, they are strongly committed to making customers successful, [their] GC consumables and technical support play an important role in helping our customers monitor for pesticides and other contaminants and meet the sensitivity requirements of global regulated methods,” continued Mazzeo.
Under the terms of the agreement, Waters and Restek will work together to provide food safety laboratories with training and applications support of GC–MS methods and workflows for pesticide monitoring and screening.
“Restek is excited to work with Waters on this new venture,” said Rick Lake, Vice President, Marketing, Restek Corporation. “By collaborating, we can combine our unique expertise to help analysts around the world perform the vital job of ensuring the safety of a food supply we all share,” added Lake.
For more information, please visit: www.waters.com/tqgc or www.restek.com
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