Steven Ray Wilson's AFFL LC–MS system runs thousands of injections per column, but he calls validation and standardization the field's real barrier.
News|Articles|June 15, 2026
Rethinking Food Testing with Dried Spot Microsampling
Author(s)Maria Halabalaki, Kate Jones
LCGC International spoke to Maria Halabalaki, an associate professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, about how dried spot microsampling could transform food testing.
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