In this study, dried fruit samples (organic and regular raisins, sultanas and currants) and bread spreads (from different nuts and seeds; i.e. peanuts, almonds, sunflower etc.) were purchased from stores in the US, UK and Germany. Samples were digested using microwave digestion and tested by ICP-MS to determine heavy metal contamination and potential exposure.
In this fifth part of " Conversations with Michael Dong," a series on fundamentals of HPLC in pharmaceutical analysis, LCGC International’s "Perspectives in HPLC" column editor discusses how to overcome challenges with reversed-phase chromatography in drug analysis.
This week on Chromatography Online, leading experts shared practical insights with LCGC International on sustainable affinity methods, siRNA impurity profiling, nontarget screening, peptide tech transfer, and AI in separation science.
Anneli Kruve reports that toxicity predictions from MS2-derived molecular fingerprints outperform spectral-similarity methods in nontarget screening of food.