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30 October 2014

Top Story: Chromatography Technical Tips — Polar Analyte Retention and Phase Collapse
Why would one want to use a mobile phase containing 100% water? Usually to wash the analyte or old mobile phase from the column (stationary phase surface) or to help retain analytes which elute quickly using mobile phases containing only very small amounts of organic solvent (usually highly polar analytes).

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GC Connections: Electronic Control of Carrier Gas Pressure, Flow, and Velocity
Have you wondered how your GC system sets and controls gas pressures, flows, and carrier gas velocities electronically? This article describes the requirements for and the operation of electronic gas control systems for GC columns and detectors.

Peak Scientific Managing Director Wins Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Manufacturing 2014
Robin MacGeachy, the Managing Director of Peak Scientific in Inchinnan, Scotland, has been awarded the Ernst and Young UK Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Manufacturing 2014.

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Advances in Micro-Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry in Residue and Contaminant Analysis
Advances in nano-ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (nUHPLC) and micro-UHPLC (µUHPLC) are described and evaluated, with reference to the analysis of veterinary drugs and steroids in porcine meat and urine respectively.

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Meat Authentication Using HPLC–MS–MS
Researchers from the Institute of Food Chemistry at Westfälische Wilhelms‑Universität Münster in Germany have developed an optimized HPLC–MS–MS method using multiple reaction mode (MRM) and MRM3 for detecting horse and pork in highly processed food.

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