Market Trends and Analysis: Water Analysis and Testing Glenn Cudiamat reports on the vast water analysis market and looks at worldwide demand for laboratory separation techniques within the water testing industry. Separation of Complex Peptide Samples Using Optimized Column Technology and 1D-LC Conditions Sebastiaan Eeltink, Bas Dolman, Karsten Dekker, Fraser McLeod and Remco Swart Diastereoselective Separation of Fenvalerate by Supercritical Fluid Chromatography with Tandem Columns Jennifer Lefler and Rui Chen News All the news for September 2008. Incognito: Turn On, Tune In, Outsource… With many laboratories closing or downsizing in preference for outsourcing work to offshore territories, Incognito highlights some of the shortfalls to be expected. Q&Q The Column's Alasdair Matheson spoke to Rohan Thakur from thermo Fisher Scientific about the company's rationale behind developing the TSQ Vantage — a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer — for high sensitivity bioanalysis.
Lorna Nisbet from the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, discusses a GC–MS. technique developed to detect anabolic-androgenic steroids in e-cigarettes seized from Scottish prisons.
Kinjal Bhatt and Ina Varfaj trace their pull toward analytical science to a saturated chromatography peak and the moment their first chiral peaks separated.
Emma Macturk from LECO Corporation explains which forensic applications benefit from GC×GC’s greater peak capacity, and when the additional separation power may only provide limited benefits.
Koji Yamaguchi of the International University of Health and Welfare (Narita, Japan) discusses a novel derivatized liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method plus propofol glucuronide (PRG) marker which improves forensic propofol detection.
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) coupled with headspace solid-phase microextraction )HS-SPME) links cocoa variety to chocolate aroma and flavor profiles.