Rethinking Targeted Analysis: Structure-Specific Detection in Complex Food and Pharmaceutical Matrices
|Articles|May 17, 2013

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  • The Column-05-17-2013
  • Volume 9
  • Issue 9

How to Improve Sample Preparation Accuracy, Reproducibility, and Lab-to-Lab Variation with Automation

By implementing automation, a laboratory can instantly increase throughput, improve accuracy, reproducibility, and lab-to-lab consistency.

Sample preparation has historically been a time-consuming challenge in high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) and gas chromatography (GC) analysis, consisting of up to 60% of total analysis time. Automated platformsare now able to perform sample preparation techniques including solid-phase extraction (SPE) and proteinprecipitation. By implementing automation, a laboratory can instantly increase throughput, improve accuracy,reproducibility, and lab-to-lab consistency.

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