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USP chapter can help ensure data integrity of a chromatography data system. Here’s how.

By optimizing and fully automating the bubble-in-drop microextraction process, this sample preparation technique, combined with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) analysis, provides high precision and good figures of merit, as shown for selected organochlorine pesticides in the analysis of tap water and reservoir water samples.

Sometimes, the conditions specified in legacy liquid chromatography (LC) methods seem like they come from a different planet. This month, we look at which conditions to keep, and which ones to let go of.

“GC Connections” presents the column’s annual review of new developments in the field of gas chromatography (GC) seen at Pittcon and other venues in the past 12 months.

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

Isabelle Kohler from Leiden University, in Leiden, The Netherlands, spoke to LCGC Europe about the latest trends in clinical metabolomics using chromatography and how the field is likely to evolve in the future.

Metabolomics 2019, the Jubilee 15th International Conference of the Metabolomics Society, will be held in The Hague, The Netherlands, from 23–27 June 2019. The conference will be held at the World Forum Conference Centre, located in the Hague, and an hour from Schiphol Airport and Rotterdam The Hague Airport.

In this excerpt from LCGC Europe’s e-learning platform, CHROMacademy.com, mobile phase design for high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is discussed.

An introduction from the guest editor of this special supplement from LCGC Europe revealing recent developments in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC).

Click the title above to open The Column November 07, 2017 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 13, Number 16, in an interactive PDF format.

The Association of British Spectroscopists (ABS) Trust invites applications for the 2020 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary and the 2020 Edward Steers Bursary.

The Chinese American Chromatography Association (CACA) presented awards its Young Investigator and the Student Excellence Awards at the CACA annual dinner event at Pittcon 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe April 2019 regular issue, Vol 32, No 04, in an interactive PDF format.

To answer the question "Is there a good flow diagram I can use for GC method development?" please see below for our first attempt at something suitable, in the form of stepwise decision trees and flow diagrams.

This is the first in a series of articles exploring current topics in separation science that will be addressed at the HPLC 2019 conference in Milan, Italy, from 16–20 June. In this preview, Davy Guillarme discusses multidimensional liquid chromatography approaches for the characterization of protein biopharmaceuticals.

Click the title above to open The Column April 2019 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 15, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column April 2019 North American issue, Volume 15, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

Highly repeatable fragmentation of the compounds into the ion source is one of the major advantages of using gas chromatography coupled with electron ionization mass spectrometry (GC–EI-MS) for the analysis of volatile and semivolatile compounds. The generation of intense and diagnostic fragmentation when the ionization is performed at 70 eV has been used for the creation of many established databases-enabling the analyte identification process.

The House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub‑Committee has highlighted the risk of losing access to key sources of Horizon 2020 funding in a “no-deal” scenario and called on the Government to confirm that the UK will seek full association to the next phase of the programme, “Horizon Europe”.

Shimadzu employees have volunteered to reforest an area in the Duisburg city forest (Germany) planting 1500 new trees and contributing to the long-lasting woodlands development.

Restek Corporation and LECO have agreed an expanded collaboration that will allow LECO customers access to a core set of Restek consumables.

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The 48th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2019) will be held 16–20 June 2019 at the Milano-Bicocca University, in Milan, Italy. This is the first time that this symposium will be held in Italy.

This is the first in a series of articles exploring current topics in separation science that will be addressed at the HPLC 2019 conference in Milan, Italy, from 16–20 June.

The “5th Workshop on Analytical Metabolomics” will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from the 13–17 May 2019. Here is a sneak preview of what attendees can look forward to.

Peter Schoenmakers, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Amsterdam, received the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award on Monday, March 18, at Pittcon 2019, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.