2 May / June 2017 Foreword
Welcome to the second edition for 2017 of Chromatography Today. As announced in the first issue, in an aim to keep the articles and features fresh and topical for 2017, we have changed the focus slightly in that we will be running two general themes throughout the year – Fundamental Aspects of Chromatography and Modern Chromatography Applications to provide you with both advances in the fundamental aspects, method development and new instrumentation in analytical separation science and modern cutting edge and practical applications of analytical separation. The focus areas within these two themes for this edition are ‘Pharmaceutical method development’ and ‘Testing the authenticity and integrity of foods and consumer products’ respectively.
Trevor Hopkins - Editor
In the Pharmaceutical and drug discovery method development focus area, article submissions represent the changing therapeutic landscape for the pharmaceutical industry with more articles describing method development for biologics, proteins, glycans and oligonucleotides than small molecules. Sciex present an accelerated method development workflow for Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC’s) employing LC-MS/MS, Thermo Fisher Scientific an article on the method development of therapeutic oligonucleotides and the University of Georgia, USA, describe the development of a hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography retention model for N-linked glycans.
Food quality, authenticity and the integrity of food and consumer products come as an expected standard for the 21st century and are the focus of global food and safety authorities, and are controlled by national and international regulations. Recent cases of contamination by pesticides, chemicals or adulterants include fraud incidents such as melamine in baby formula (China 2008), horse meat being labelled as other meats (UK and EU early 2013), battery eggs being sold as organic eggs (Germany early 2013) demonstrate the vulnerability of food that reaches every dinner table in the world nowadays. Food and consumer product contamination and fraud are major concerns not only for consumers, but also for producers and distributors.
These illicit activities result not only in considerable financial losses but have also eroded global consumer confidence so the analysis for contamination is therefore an essential part of global food and consumer safety policies to ensure the highest level of protection of human health. The analysis and testing for contaminants is covered in this issue by submissions from Shimadzu who review the current trends in food safety analysis, and an article on the analysis
of pesticides in food by LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS by Waters. Portability of analysis is also featured with articles by Ellutia on chemical residue analysis of medicinal cannabis using a portable GC and the use of a portable GC-MS for the profiling and fingerprinting of cocoa powder and chocolate products submitted by Perkin Elmer.
Each edition of Chromatography Today is packed with valuable information, however it is impossible to include everything that is submitted. The new revised Chromatography Today website (www.
chromatographytoday.com) is the repository where you will find the other submissions, the latest news from the world of separation science and access to all the historical articles. Perusing the trending news and article sections, it is surprising how much separation science plays a part in daily life without us ever appreciating it, or even realising it. There is a diverse range of areas highlighting just how important separation science is to society with a calendar of events and articles on food, biofuels, medicine, forensics, brewing and environmental clean-up. Please take a look and if you are not a current recipient of the Chromatography Today ebulletin – please sign up today.
As always we welcome article submissions, topic ideas for inclusion in future issues and feedback from our readership. If you have any feedback on this edition of Chromatography Today, please contact us as we are always looking to improve the publication.
Trevor. Next Issue - Fundamental Aspects - MS Detection - MS Ionisation Techniques
Modern Applications - Petrochemical and Industrial Analysis To be included call us on +44(0)1727 855574 or
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