LCGC Asia Pacific-06-01-2019

Click the title above to open the LCGC Asia Pacific May/June 2019 regular issue, Volume 22, Number 2, in an interactive PDF format.

In this study, chemicals extracted from a food packaging plastic film with a series of organic solvents were tentatively identified with comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC–TOF–MS). A total of 91 compounds were tentatively identified in the film extracts, based on high mass spectral matching with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) mass spectral (MS) library.

When can we use completely aqueous eluents with reversed-phase stationary phases, and what happens if we make a mistake?

In this excerpt from LCGC’s e-learning platform, CHROMacademy.com, recovery problems in solid-phase extraction (SPE) are discussed.

This yearly report on new products introduced since March 2018 covers sample preparation instrumentation, supplies, and accessories.

LCGC Asia Pacific spoke to Yong Liu and Adam Socia from MSD about the cost-saving benefits of implementing green chromatography in the pharmaceutical sector, the importance of analytical method volume intensity (AMVI), and effective practices to reduce solvent consumption and replace harmful solvents, including supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), fast chromatography, and “cocktail chromatography”.