Jonathan Shackman | Authors

Is there a secret formula to getting hired into a pharmaceutical analytical chemistry group? What skills are prized above all others?

Even after 40 years, we have yet to find a perfect solution to the problem of demonstrating and achieving acceptable column precision for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) packing material.

Pretty much every commercial chromatography column has some sort of release testing done on it before it leaves the manufacturer. Just how valuable are those tests to the end user? Should column Certificates of Analysis go straight to the rubbish bin?