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The preservation of food at home is a major concern for all consumers. A group of researchers from INRA in Avignon, France, have conducted a study into tomato aroma with the aim of finding the optimum conditions for storage. According to results published in Food Chemistry,1 the team used gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC?MS) to measure volatile compounds in the fruit.

By implementing automation, a laboratory can instantly increase throughput, improve accuracy, reproducibility, and lab-to-lab consistency.

Agilent Technologies (California, USA) has opened the Asia Glycomics Education Center in South Korea, building on the recent collaboration with Chungham National University (Daejon, South Korea) through the university's Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology (GRAST).

Consumer protection requires that harmful chemicals are prevented from reaching food products or pharmaceuticals designated for human consumption. Packaging keeps products fresh and protects against direct contamination; however, materials used to manufacture the packaging can be an unintended source of migrating chemicals. To perform routine migration studies, food producers, or packaging suppliers, need to determine barrier properties of primary food packaging.

Incognito dreams of a future with a completely intuitive and flexible data system.

An international team of scientists led by Dr Oliver Craig, University of York (York, UK) has published evidence for the consumption of fish by hunter-gatherers in the last ice age in the journal Nature.1

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We are pleased to introduce the Lab Water Virtual Conference 2013 hosted by EMD Millipore in North America and Merck Millipore in CEMEA.

Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK) has entered into a five-year partnership with Community First (UK).

Patent infringement disputes between EMD Millipore (Billerica, Massachusetts) and W.L. Gore and Associates Inc. (Delaware, USA) have been settled in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

ISOLUTE? Myco SPE columns are a designed for ?catch and release? style clean-up of mycotoxins prior to analysis by LC-MS/MS. The ISOLUTE Myco sorbent is a proprietary polymeric phase (patent pending) optimized to enable the extraction of a wide range of mycotoxins from a wide range of foodstuffs.

Click here to view the complete E-Separation Solutions newsletter from May 9, 2013.

Welcome to the chromatography news report. This installment covers a range of news stories.

Kevin Schug discusses the power of MS for resolving an enormous number of compounds in a sample.

Fuzhou, China, April 1, 2013 - The 19th National Chromatography Academic Report and Exhibition opened in Fuzhou. Please see video and article (both in Chinese).

Environmental and pharmaceutical application, forensics, material and food production analyses – Shimadzu’s new HS-20 headspace sampler serves GC and GCMS applications particularly in testing and inspection organizations.

Merck Millipore inorganic sorbents tailored to fit needs. Merck Millipore reversed phase sorbents and silica gels - achieve superior purity in your downstream process

The Zetasizer ?V is a dual capability light scattering system that can be added to any protein SEC system to measure absolute molecular size and molecular weight in real time.

Advanstar Communications (New York, USA) has announced the launch of the new Pharmaceutical Technology and BioPharm International Marketplace eDirectory built on the online Credibility Review Business Marketplace platform developed by Dun and Bradstreet Credibility Corp. (California, USA). Advanstar Communications are the first B2B publishers to embrace the platform.

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The National University of Singapore Environmental Institute (NERI) and Thermo Fisher Scientific are collaborating on a project to monitor and improve water quality in Singapore. LCGC spoke to the scientists involved to find out more about the project.

From 4th to 7th June 2013, the 10th edition of Forum LABO & BIOTECH will be held in Paris Expo-Porte de Versailles exhibitions centre.

A sensitive method for quantitation of pyrethroids in surface water and sediment samples using GC?MS?MS is proposed.

Incognito wonders why connections cannot be more sophisticated.

An introduction from the guest editors of this special supplement from LCGC Europe focusing on some recent developments in pharmaceutical analysis.

This article shows how TD-GC-TOF-MS can be used to analyse the vapours released by strawberries.

Training courses in the practical applications of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) were held in Hangzhou on April 12, 2013.

Professor Boguslaw Buszewski, Chairman of ISC 2012 and President of EuSSS, CeGSS and the Polish Chemical Society, reveals the highlights of last year's illuminating programme.