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RTS Life Science (Manchester, UK), a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems, announced that it will host a workshop at the IQPC Fourth Annual Compound Management & Integrity Conference (CMI) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is scheduled for September 22-24, 2008.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced that it is the winner of a Microsoft Corporation 2008 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the discovery and product innovation category.

Italian scientists have conducted a systematic study of drug levels in the nails of newborn babies as an indicator of drug exposure during pregnancy using GC-MS.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts), has acquired the analytical technologies and environment instrumentation divisions of Chemito Technologies Pvt. Ltd (Mumbai, India).

Researchers from Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Michigan) used headspace sampling with gas chromatography to analyze the concentration and identity of compounds in the vapor above six ionic liquids at a temperature of 100 ?C.

JASCO and Princeton Chromatography have announced a collaboration in the areas of Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) instrumentation and column manufacturing.

Scientists from Taiwan have developed a method for dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction of ionisable compounds that renders it compatible with reversed-phase HPLC by combining it with in-syringe back extraction. The new system was demonstrated with the removal of the drug clenbuterol from water.

Currently papers are being accepted for the 9th Csaba Horvath Medal Award Symposium to be held on April 28-29, 2009 at the Hartford Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

Chemists from the University of Cordoba (Cordoba, Spain) used a continuous ultrasound-assisted approach to extract nine haloacetic acids from vegetables and conversion to methyl esters for gas chromatography (GC) analysis.

Restek Corporation (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania), has announced its anticipated January 1, 2009 transition from 22% to 100% employee ownership under an ESOP structure.

U.S. researchers have developed a new LC–MS-MS method that is more sensitive for detecting if athletes have taken drugs to artificially boost testosterone and increase physical performance.

Horizon Technology (Salem, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of automated sample preparation equipment, has announced that it has partnered with the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association to promote World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2008.

Phenomenex, Inc. (Torrance, California), a consumables manufacturer, has announced the opening of its new subsidiary in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

U.S. researchers have developed a new LC-MS-MS method that is more sensitive for detecting if athletes have taken drugs to artificially boost testosterone and increase physical performance.

Horizon Technology (Salem, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of automated sample preparation equipment, has announced that it has partnered with the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association to promote World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2008.

Supercritical fluid chromatography or subcritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is considered a normal-phase technique. In this article, we sought to examine whether it was feasible to use nonpolar columns (for example, C18) under SFC conditions to separate compounds that closely eluted or co-eluted by gradient and isocratic reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).

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Restek Corporation (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania), has announced its anticipated January 1, 2009 transition from 22% to 100% employee ownership under an ESOP structure.

The advantages of mass spectrometry (MS) in combination with gas chromatography (GC), in terms of providing both qualitative and quantitative information, are well known. However, reliable identification and accurate measurement of trace toxic and odorous species at the lowest levels of interest can be compromised by chromatographic anomalies such as column bleed, extended solvent tails, air and water interference, and unresolved sample matrix components. To address this issue, a new software algorithm has been developed for reprocessing stored GC-MS data. It uses an innovative dynamic approach to distinguish and eliminate background interference as it changes throughout a run.

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Phenomenex Inc. (Torrance, California), a consumables manufacturer, has announced the opening of its new subsidiary in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Advanced Materials Technology (Wilmington, Delaware), a manufacturer and developer of columns for HPLC, and the Berlin-based Capsulution NanoScience AG signed a license contract for the use of the LBL? Technology in June.

Researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada) and McGill University (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada) used headspace solid-phase microextraction (SPME) in conjunction with gas chromatography?mass spectrometry (GC?MS) to measure flavor compounds in commercial cheddar cheese and enzyme-modified cheddar cheese.

Researchers at the Wake Forest Center for Botanical Lipids, in Winston Salem, North Carolina have discovered undesirable levels of unhealthy omega-6 fatty acids instead of omega-3 fatty acids in tilapia using a GC method.

A research group at the University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway) developed a method for electromembrane extraction of eight peptides from an aqueous acidic solution using a thin supported liquid membrane in a porous hollow fiber.

Wyatt Technology (Santa Barbara, California) has announced that it will be hosting a field flow fractionation-multiangle light scattering (FFF-MALS) meeting on October 22, 2008, at the Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara.

Verdure Technologies, Inc., an Idaho based biotech green technologies company, moved into its new research and development facility in Pocatello Idaho.

Horizon Technology (Salem, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of automated sample preparation equipment, has announced that it has partnered with the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association to promote World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2008.