June 2025

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Yoshiaki Hirao, President of Shimadzu Europa GmbH, sat down with LCGC International to share insights into the company’s journey, reflecting on its evolution from a small Kyoto-based enterprise founded in 1875 to a global leader in analytical instrumentation.

Analysis of VOCs is essential to maintain product consistency by detecting whether growing, refining, and production processes have an impact on the smell and taste of the product or whether a product has been tampered with.

Discover a novel GC-based method for accurately analyzing organic carbonates in lithium-ion batteries without the need for complex calibrations.

Discover a generic gas chromatography method for efficiently analyzing residual solvents in pharmaceuticals, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

analytica USA will take place for the first time in September 10–12, 2025. Here’s a taster of what to look forward to at this inaugural event.

Injecting too little into a liner in splitless mode can cause band broadening and increased activity. This article examines these effects in split mode.

This article explores the technological advancements in HPLC that enhance its role in analyzing PFAS in food, including innovations in column technology, detection systems, and sample preparation techniques.

This article explores the current applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in chromatography. It anticipates AI’s transformative benefits for the future, looking at the impacts that separation scientists will inevitably see and are already seeing.

SFC Europe 2025—the 19th International Conference on Packed Column Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Related Techniques—will be held in Basel, Switzerland, on October 5–7, 2025.

In the final part of this roundtable discussion focused on the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Women in Chromatography, Ilaria Belluomo, Giorgia Purcaro, and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor reveal what resources they would recommend for women in chromatography.

In the sixth instalment of this roundtable discussion focused on the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Women in Chromatography, Ilaria Belluomo, Giorgia Purcaro, and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor discuss the role that mentorship and networking have played in their careers.

In the food industry, evolving consumer demands, contamination concerns, and workforce issues are driving significant changes in food analysis and instrumentation.

In the fifth part of this roundtable discussion focused on the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Women in Chromatography, LCGC International asked Ilaria Belluomo, Giorgia Purcaro, and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor what advice they would offer to young women looking to enter the chromatography field.

How to take ownership of your next career steps

In the fourth instalment of this roundtable discussion focused on the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Women in Chromatography, Ilaria Belluomo, Giorgia Purcaro, and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor reveal the best advice they have received in their careers.

In the third part of this roundtable discussion focused on the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Women in Chromatography, LCGC International spoke to Ilaria Belluomo, Giorgia Purcaro, and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor about how the industry is working to enhance gender inclusivity.

In the second instalment of this roundtable discussion focused on the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Women in Chromatography, LCGC International spoke to Ilaria Belluomo, Giorgia Purcaro, and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor about the challenges that face women as they navigate a career in chromatography.

In the first part of this roundtable discussion focused on the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Women in Chromatography, LCGC International spoke to Ilaria Belluomo, Giorgia Purcaro, and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor about their route into separation science.

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.

Researchers developing a plant microbial consortium that can repair in-situ high concentration TNT (1434 mg/kg) contaminated soil, as well as overcome the limitations of previous studies that only focused on simulated pollution, used untargeted metabolone gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to measure their success.

In a commentary published in Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers voiced concerns about the limitations in PFAS research due to restricted access to high-purity reference standards.

Reinforcement learning was tested as a means of improving liquid chromatography method development.