Food safety testing is under growing pressure to be faster, broader, and more accurate — all at once. In Peak to Plate: Expert Insight in Food Analysis, LCGC International brings together leading researchers tackling that challenge: refining recovery accuracy for mineral oil hydrocarbon analysis, screening hundreds of mycotoxins in a single short run, simplifying sample collection with dried spot microsampling, and connecting food contaminant testing to broader human exposure and health risk.
Ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS/MS) tracks blood metabolite changes after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)-cognitive training therapy.
Revisiting insertion distance for methanol and methylene chloride in GC analysis and confirming that insertion depth strongly affects response and reproducibility.
A novel SFC–QTOF-MS method accurately detected 10 drugs in oral fluid, matching LC–MS/MS in 83 DUID cases while reducing run time by 42% and organic solvent use by 81%.
Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) team up to recover olive waste antioxidants. Marina Russo of the University of Messina (Italy) discusses the details.
Waters' Erin Chambers says combining column chemistry and particle-physics innovation cut a GLP-1 impurity profiling workflow from three hours to under one.