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French scientists have developed a GC?MS method, combined with a triple partition extraction step to reduce the amounts of co-extracted fats, for the determination of pesticides in meat-based baby foods.

Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan) used thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and high performance liquid chromatography in a study of structures on plant surfaces that provide resistance against herbivores.

Researchers from Univerité de Lyon (Lyon, France) have developed a chromatographic method for distinguishing 100% natural honey from adulterated or impure honey.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California) announced that it has been presented with the ACHEMA 2009 Innovation Award for the category of Laboratory and Analytical Techniques.

Purification of a 13-mer DNA Phosphorothioated Crude Deprotected Oligonucleotide by Strong Anion Exchange Chromatography Using TSKgel DNA- NPR- Tosoh Application Note

Scientists from Henan Normal University (Xinxiang, China) and the University of Science and Technology Beijing (Beijing, China) developed an ultrasound-assisted ionic liquid dispersive liquid-phase microextraction procedure for determining four aromatic amines in water samples.

For those of you who have not yet had a chance to read Spectroscopy and LCGC?s "Homeland Security" supplement (www.spectroscopyonline.com), Tuesday morning's "Mass Spectrometry in Homeland Protection" session should provide a nice overview of the topic.

Complete Carbamate Testing Solution-Waters Application Note

Tuesday afternoon's session titled "LC?MS Assessment of Human Metabolism Compliance with "MIST" Guidance" plans to tackle the topic of the key challenges for drug development as a result of the FDA?s MIST guidance.

It's all in the perspective.

Optimization of Wash-Elution Conditions-Phenomenex Application Note

Acetonitrile Shortage-SIELC Technologies Application Note

Columnist Michael Balogh looks at the questions: Where are we now? What do the early MS innovators see as their legacy? And what can we expect in the future?

Welcome again, to Day 2 of ASMS 2009. We?re pleased to bring you our continued coverage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ASMS is in full swing, and last night?s hospitality suites were as crowded as ever, as you might imagine. Tonight promises to be another crowded night at the Marriott, but before then, there is a whole day of mass spectrometry-related science.

Rising stars interview leading figures in the world of chromatography. Gert Desmet talks to John Knox.

The call for increased biofuel production will surely be closely followed by a need for improved methods of analysis. The six presentations in this Tuesday morning session will examine various roles of mass spectrometry in biofuels analysis and will cover topics such as biodiesel characterization, metaproteomic analysis of termite microbes relevant to biofuel development, and multiple reaction monitoring of biofuels systems metabolic pathways.

United States Pharmacopeia (USP) general chapter 1058 on analytical instrument qualification (AIQ) has finally become official and was released in August 2008 in the first supplement to the USP XXXI.1 This column reviews AIQ and discusses the impact it will have in the regulated chromatography laboratory.

Evaporation-free extraction (no drying down) is highly desirable because of its reduced cost and pollution, higher speed, and less possibility for contamination and conversion. Presented in this article are four types of evaporation-free extraction that are widely applicable. The first one is for the determination of didanosine over the range of 25.02–2502.00 ng/mL by injecting solid-phase extraction (SPE) eluate directly. The second is for the determination of betamethasone phosphate over the range of 2.51–250.60 ng/mL by injecting SPE eluate after pH adjustment. The third is for the determination of sumatriptan over the range of 0.99–99.40 ng/mL based upon SPE with high organic washing and low organic elution. The fourth is based upon automated dilution after protein precipitation for the determination of raloxifene-4'-glucuronide and raloxifene-6-glucuronide over the ranges of 2.02–202.40 ng/mL and 0.40–39.95 ng/mL, respectively.

A session dedicated to "Accurate Mass LC-MS Approaches for Characterization and Quantification of Drugs and Metabolites" will kick off the fourth day of the technical program on Tuesday at the 57th ASMS Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ALMSCO International announced it has made several significant enhancements to its ClearView chromatography/MS data reprocessing software, which is distributed exclusively by Markes.

Continuous Chromatographic Separation of Salt From Sugars- Orochem Application Note

Assistant Editor Megan Evans takes a look back at the annual ASMS Conference that was recently held in Philadelphia.

Rapid Analysis of Capsaicinoids-Hitachi Application Note

The historic city of Dresden, Germany will host HPLC 2009 - 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques. This symposium will be held in Dresden's International Congress Centre from 28 June–2 July 2009.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has been presented with the ACHEMA 2009 Innovation Award for the category of Laboratory and Analytical Techniques. The PROCESS Innovation Award honours the most innovative technologies and equipment at ACHEMA, which this year had more than 4000 exhibitors.

Is the renewed interest in Green Chromatography marketing hype, or is the industry starting to take the topic seriously?

LGC Standards has opened its first office in Beijing, China, a milestone in the company's international development. The new office will enable the company to bring its range of laboratory quality products and services to the Chinese market and offer logistical and technical advice to Chinese laboratories in their local language.

The University of Oxford has recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust Technology Development Grant to work on the detection and characterization of nanoparticles in the early detection of human disease.