This executive summary explores how revisions to USP <621> have introduced greater flexibility in chromatographic method adjustments while reinforcing system suitability as the definitive standard for method acceptance. Heiko Behr, senior business development manager at Phenomenex, walks through key principles governing column substitution, flow rate scaling, mobile phase control, and dwell volume management during method transfer. A practical Nifedipine case study demonstrates how these allowances can be applied to reduce run times tenfold without compromising monograph-defined selectivity or compliance.
Liquid chromatography–ion mobility spectrometry–high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC–IMS–HRMS) shows elephant seal pups carry more PFAS than their mothers do.
This week's Chromatography Online highlights include olive waste antioxidant recovery, food and tea analysis, EV isolation, mRNA vaccine purification, perfusion chromatography for oligonucleotides, mass spectrometry in teaching and career advice from “Women in Chromatography.”
Kinjal Bhatt and Ina Varfaj call AI a chromatography equalizer only if training and access keep pace, framing the risk as implementation, not technology.
Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) reveal lasting brain cholesterol loss after myelin damage.
Kinjal Bhatt would expose early-career scientists to the field sooner, while Ina Varfaj says a broken chromatography column taught her failure is normal.