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enabling higher throughput,” stated David B Patteson, ceo of Advion. “Advion and AB SCIEX have had a joint marketing agreement since 2003 as part of Advion’s global initiative to introduce the benefits of automated nanoESI through strategic alliances. Tis collaboration helps both companies continue to bring the latest technologies to our combined customers.”


Te TriVersa NanoMate with LESA technology operates by positioning a disposable pipette tip above a preselected location on the sample, and delivers a droplet of solvent into contact with the surface of any planar sample, thereby extracting the analytes.


Te analyte-rich droplet is retracted into the pipette tip and delivered to the back of the 400-nozzle ESI Chip using Advion’s nanoESI’s long, stable spray times for deeper MS analysis. Te sampling locations are built into a batch queue for subsequent automatic analysis.


Residue analysis For its part, Bruker Chemical Analysis has announced that the Korean National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (NAQS) has ordered six of its triple-quadrupole gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) systems for pesticide residue analysis and general monitoring of agricultural products.


With an experimental research institute in Seoul and multiple


Small size FTIR from Agilent


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gilent Technologies has launched the Cary 630 Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, which the company says offers outstanding


performance and reproducibility for routine laboratory analysis of solids, liquids and gases. In addition, the new instrument is the smallest and lightest FTIR spectrometer on the market, creating a significant decrease in the instrument’s footprint in the laboratory.


Designed with customer applications in mind,


innovative sampling accessories slide in and out in seconds, with no alignment required. Intuitive software allows even novice users to accurately analyse samples in just seconds. The Cary 630 FTIR removes the need to use a


liquid transmission cell through Agilent’s unique liquid sampling technology, the DialPath and TumblIR. “Agilent is all about improving customer workflow


and providing solutions that will save time and money,” said Philip Binns, Agilent vice president for spectroscopy products. “The Cary 630 FTIR will change the way our


customers approach measuring samples. It provides exceptional value, performance and usability all packed into the smallest instrument available in the market.” Ideal for QA/QC in the chemical and pharmaceutical


industries, the Cary 630 FTIR is also well suited for academic research and teaching labs. The intuitive, multi-language software guides


users through every step of operation, while colour- coded alerts make it easy to see whether samples meet specification. For customers in the pharmaceutical industry, the Cary 630’s software is fully 21 CFR Part 11 compliant.


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branch offices throughout South Korea, NAQS has selected Bruker to install the triple-quadrupole GC-MS systems in each of its local laboratories for detection and monitoring of more than 220 pesticide residues in agricultural products. NAQS aims to develop enhanced food testing analytical approaches for Korean agriculture through the collection of informative statistical data for agricultural business, policy making and academic research.


To do so most effectively, NAQS is currently upgrading its portfolio of analytical instrumentation and certification protocols to ensure that


highest quality standards can be applied.


Accurate and reliable screening for the presence of pesticides in food is a major analytical challenge. Te increasing number of pesticides poses special analytical challenges with several hundred different pesticides requiring identification and quantitation. Bruker has pioneered high-performance triple-quadrupole GC-MS systems for lower detection limits, higher specificity and greater reliability in GC-MS food analysis.


Recently Bruker also introduced the new SCION triple-quadrupole GC-MS as the new performance


“Accurate and reliable screening for the presence of pesticides in food is a


major analytical challenge.”


Fig. 2. Easy-to-use, affordable and robust triple-quadrupole technology.


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