Solutions Worldwide Newsletter Edition 12

A Breathe of Fresh Air

Food, Flavor and Fragrance Analysis

• Wine flavor analysis: Holding on to fleeting encounters
  Solvent-free extraction combined with on-demand multi-dimensional GC/MS and analyte concentration lets you find even the smallest flavor compound peaks in complex matrices
• Twister extraction: All good things come in threes
  The usefulness of Twister sorption phases for generating flavor profiles of beverages was tested. And the winner is…
• Fragrance analysis: Fabric softeners caught in a whirl… 
  One company‘s successful search for an alternative to solvent-based extraction of fragrances in household products and detergents

Environmental Analysis

• Easy catch: Pesticides in water
  Automated SPE combined with evaporative analyte concentration and LC-MS/MS makes it easy to reach required LODs for pesticides in water
• Natural mysteries: Ghostbusters in the desert
  South African scientists dig deeper in their search for the causes of the Namib “fairy circles”

Indoor Air Quality

• A breath of fresh air? When home and office make you suffer…
  Fast and easy determination of VOC- and SVOC emissions from building products used indoors makes producers and occupants breathe a sigh of relief

Drug Screening

• No pain!
  Pain management drugs: Single step automated liquid extraction and dispersive SPE clean-up enables efficient automated LC-MS/MS determination

Biofuel

• Sustainable fuel
  Automated sample preparation and determination of glycerin in biodiesel