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Eli Grushka, a professor emeritus of analytical chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Chemistry Institute, passed away on March 22 after a brief illness. Grushka was the president of the Israel Society for Analytical Chemistry for many years and served on the organizing committee of the annual Isranalytica meeting, the largest analytical chemistry meeting in Israel.

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Researchers from South Korea have investigated methods of reducing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons within cooked meat using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry.

A team of researchers has developed a high-throughput analysis method for 192 diverse pesticides and 51 environmental contaminants (13 polychlorianted biphenyl [PCB] congeners, 14 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [PAHs], seven polybrominated diphenyl ethers [PBDE] congeners, and 17 novel flame retardants) in cattle, swine, and poultry meats. The team used a combination of low-pressure gas chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LP)GC–MS–MS and ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography coupled to tandem MS in the analysis.