The Column-03-09-2015

The Column

Finding Answers with Foodomics

March 09, 2015

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Kate Mosford of The Column spoke to Miguel Herrero of the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL-CSIC) at the Spanish National Research Council, in Madrid, Spain, about his research in foodomics-based approaches, the evolution of food analysis, and the benefits of 2D LC in this application.

ISCC and GC×GC 2015

March 09, 2015

Features

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The 39th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) and the 12th GCGC Symposium will be held jointly from 17–21 May 2015 in Ft. Worth, Texas, USA. This preview explains more.

Determining Child Phthalate Exposure

March 09, 2015

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Vinyl flooring in the home could be a key source of phthalates ingested and inhaled by children, according to a new study. The work was performed as part of an ongoing project by the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University in New York, USA, and followed a cohort of women and children living in New York city to investigate the impact of phthalate exposure on the health of children.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Buys Advanced Scientifics, Inc.

March 09, 2015

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Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) has acquired Advanced Scientifics, Inc. (ASI) (Millersburg, Pennsylvania, USA) for $300 million (US) in cash.

Fraudulent Dietary Supplement Analysis

March 09, 2015

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On Monday 2 February the New York State Attorney General’s office sent letters to four major retailers accusing them of selling fraudulent herbal supplements and demanding that they remove the products from their shelves. To the surprise of many analytical chemists, however, the accusations were based on DNA barcoding technology rather than chromatographic analysis.

PerkinElmer and Waters Collaborate

March 09, 2015

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PerkinElmer and Waters Collaborate

Lung Cancer Breath Test in Clinical Trial

March 09, 2015

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The University of Leicester and Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, UK, are starting a clinical trial into a gas chromatography–field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry sensor (Owlstone Nanotech Ltd.) for the detection of early-stage lung cancer.

Vol 11 No 4 The Column March 09, 2015 Europe and Asia PDF

March 09, 2015

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March 09, 2015

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