Phenomenex has announced a Chiral Screening Service for customers in pharmaceutical and natural products research and development. This free service provides target screening using a library of HPLC and SFC columns including the Phenomenex Lux polysaccharide-based offerings, which demonstrate a success rate approaching 90 percent.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has unveiled its TSQ Quantum XLS. The triple quadrupole gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) system is designed to offer maximum precision, sensitivity and laboratory productivity for quantitative GC-MS analysis.
A new and sensitive solid phase extraction (SPE) combined direct spectrophotometry for determination of brilliant blue (BB) in food has been developed, by Professor Zi-Tao Jiang from the College of Biotechnology and Food Science at the Tianjin University of Commerce in China.
The development and validation of a multidimensional HPLC method using an on-line clean-up column coupled with amperometric detection employing a boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrode for the simultaneous determination of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and trimethoprim (TMP) in bovine milk are presented in Analytica Chimica Acta [654 (2) 127–132 (2009)].