26 ChroMAToGrAPhy/SPeCTroSCoPy
Productivity and speed are key to
chromatography and spectroscopy
D
espite the current global economic applications for target compounds at low
This year’s Pittcon
uncertainty the recent Pittcon concentrations in highly complex and diverse
exhibition highlights that
conference and exposition in samples.
users are demanding
Chicago, USA, exceeded the According to the company, the Xevo TQ MS
ever more productivity organisers’ hopes by attracting well over 19 000 System is uniquely qualified to allow laboratories
and speed from their
attendees. to conform to the new US Food and Drug
chromatography and
Among the many attractions on show by more Administration’s guidelines for bioanalytical
spectroscopy investments.
than 1000 exhibitors were the latest advances in method validation. The intent of the guidance
chromatography and spectroscopy technology. is to prevent errors due to matrix effects made
Le salon Pittcon de cette
In no uncertain terms, our customers are during the toxicological assessment of a target
année met en évidence
telling us they need to achieve more: more compound or its metabolites; errors than can
une exigence des
productivity, more efficiency, and more speed have life-threatening consequences during
utilisateurs vis-à-vis de in all of their efforts,” said Rohit Khanna, vice clinical trials.
leurs investissements president of Worldwide Marketing with Waters With the Xevo family of mass spectrometers,
en chromatographie et
Corporation. Waters is combining advanced performance with
spectroscopie : toujours
To this end, the company’s
plus de productivité et de
headline offerings this year
vitesse.
included the Xevo family of
benchtop mass spectrometers.
Auf der diesjährigen
Xevo mass spectrometers are
Pittcon Messe wurde
designed around the philosophy
deutlich, dass Kunden of Engineered Simplicity which
von ihren technischen
combines outstanding instrument
Investitionen in der
performance with simplicity
Chromatographie und
enabled by IntelliStart technology
Spektroskopie immer
to allow scientists to convert data
mehr Produktivität
und Geschwindigkeit
into business-critical knowledge
abverlangen.
faster and with greater assurance.
New to Pittcon this year, Waters
Xevo quadrupole time-of-flight
(QTof) mass spectrometer (MS) is
an exact mass MS/MS benchtop
instrument that the company says
is the most sensitive benchtop QTof
system ever developed. Paired with
Waters ACQUITY UPLC system,
the Xevo QTof MS is the only
commercially-available MS system
to give scientists one-of-a-kind
UPLC/MS performance – a novel
method of data acquisition that
captures “all of the data all of the
time” at unparalleled speeds to
maximise the amount of information
collected from minimal sample
amounts.
Also new to Pittcon was the
Waters Xevo TQ MS System, an
advanced tandem quadrupole Fig. 1. The Xevo range combines advanced performance with
mass spectrometer that tackles ease-of-use to answer the need for laboratories to get more
the most demanding quantification out of their investment in analytical technology.
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