The 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2019) will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5–8 November 2019. This preview offers a glimpse of what to expect at the conference.
The accuracy of a measurement describes how close the measured result is to the true value. Accuracy is influenced by systematic errors, which are difficult to detect even for experienced scientists.
Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is an important method for determining both dose and optimal effective level of a drug in the blood, preventing side effects such as kidney damage. Using the antibiotic classes aminoglycoside and vancomycin as examples, an analysis method is presented that combines fully automated sample preparation with triple quadrupole-mass spectrometry.
As helium prices once again increase, and warnings are being given regarding yet another laboratory-grade helium shortage, thoughts turn once again to the use of hydrogen as an alternative carrier-gas for gas chromatography.
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8 October 2019
