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If you’re responsible for testing acrylamide in food samples, you already know the obstacles that come with analyzing this compound. Analysis can be difficult in general if there are background interf...
If you have experience testing food processing biproducts such as acrylamide, then you already know all the challenges that come with the territory. Acrylamide, a probable carcinogen formed during hig...
In the world of science, there are always new topics and compounds that are discovered, but not all of them get much publicity. One of these is acrylamide. Now you’re probably saying to yourself, “wha...
You may have already read the previous blogs about QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, Safe) extraction and cleanup, but, if you have quite a few different matrix interferences or analyte...
Who knew there were so many different parts to a QuEChERS approach! The nice thing about QuEChERS is even though there are a few different steps to capture your target analytes, they are all Quick, Ea...
You might be saying to yourself, QuEChERS isn’t an extraction, it’s just QuEChERS! I know when I think extraction, I think of your traditional liquid-liquid or solid-phase extraction where you have a ...
For anyone who processes samples in an EPA-regulated laboratory, you know that these methods can be very specific in some spots, and incredibly vague in others.
It is question and answer time and we are starting with TurboVap® evaporators and their use in an environmental lab. The TurboVap® evaporation system by design utilizes a patented gas vortex shearing ...
The U.S. EPA monitors a variety of compounds that pose public health risks when they are present in our air, soil or water and they have spent decades publishing methods to help us extract and quantif...
Have you ever put your water sample onto your Biotage® Horizon 3100 extractor and all your prewet/conditioning steps worked great and then suddenly, the water inlet valve opens, and nothing happens! T...