Showing blog posts from 2014
The Serious Benefits of Giving Instruments Silly Names
Posted on December 11th, 2014
Some laboratories give their instruments names. I know of labs that name instruments after colours, characters from TV shows…
On-Line Sample Preparation for GC-MS Workshops
Posted on December 4th, 2014
If you are a GC-MS user in a routine lab, you may well need to: · Run more samples · …
Microextraction Tech Blog
Posted on November 20th, 2014
Sample treatment is essential to develop competitive analytical methods in different application areas, from environmental sciences to bioanalysis. The low…
Latest Developments in Organic MS in Environmental and Food Analysis
Posted on November 18th, 2014
Agilent Technologies are pleased to invite you to a seminar focused on latest developments in Organic Mass Spectrometry in Environmental…
New Developments in Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry – Review
Posted on November 11th, 2014
This meeting was organised by the Institute of Mass Spectrometry and hosted by the College of Medicine, Swansea University. In all, excluding…
Cypermethrin in Water at Ultra Low Levels
Posted on October 31st, 2014
Are you thinking about CIP 2? Are you interested in measuring cypermethrin at ultra-low levels? We have been working on…
A Tale of Space and Time
Posted on October 21st, 2014
The Lord of Time looked down upon the blue globe that was planet Earth and turned to his Apprentice. “When…
Now is the Time to Replace your Old High Resolution GC-MS
Posted on October 17th, 2014
Now could be a great time to replace your old high resolution GC-MS with GC/Q-TOF. Here’s why… If you wander…
Better LODs with Hot Injection and Trapping
Posted on October 9th, 2014
Analysts that carry-out work on volatile (and some semi-volatile) compounds by GC-MS, know that different headspace sampling techniques give different…
Mr Paul Robbins joins the Anatune Team
Posted on October 7th, 2014
Anatune is pleased to welcome Mr Paul Robbins, Support Engineer, who will be working alongside a really great team in the…
Automated Sample Preparation and GC/Q-TOF for Metabolomics
Posted on September 30th, 2014
As the bookings come in for our Metabolomics Workshop in early November we have been working on automating a number…
Perception and Detection of Food Flavours
Posted on September 25th, 2014
There are many challenging aspects of food analysis, in particular when looking for unknown analytes. Characterising flavour or setting suitable…
Mr Sean O’Connor joins the Anatune Team
Posted on September 12th, 2014
Anatune is pleased to welcome Mr Sean O’Connor, who will be working alongside a really great team in the Applications…
The Measurement of VOCs in Flowing Water
Posted on September 9th, 2014
We have recently been asked to build a headspace GC system for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in an…
Single Drop Micro Extraction Now Available with the GERSTEL MPS
Posted on September 5th, 2014
A little over a year ago, Anatune entered into a co-operation with Glaxo SmithKline to work on the development of…
Please forgive us for asking…
Posted on September 3rd, 2014
All of us here at Anatune are strongly committed to providing excellent customer service. To make this happen we have…
The Role of Automated Sample Preparation in Metabolomics
Posted on August 28th, 2014
Precise replication of sample preparation steps in metabolomics is critical in obtaining analytically precise results to determine true, often small…
Low Level Steroids in Waste Water by GC Triple Quad
Posted on August 19th, 2014
Right now, there is considerable interest in the analysis of low level steroids (specifically; Estrone (E1), Estradiol (E2) and Ethynyl…
Metabolomics: Automated GC-MS Workshops
Posted on July 31st, 2014
We had a number of suggestions from people involved in metabolomics to run workshops on the topic of automated sample…
Agilent Environmental Food MS Meeting, Liverpool, England
Posted on July 30th, 2014
This is always a good meeting; the content is excellent, it is always well attended and it is a great…
9 Questions to Test Your Knowledge of GC Injection
Posted on July 30th, 2014
Far too many users of gas chromatography understand far too little about sample introduction. There are plenty of people around…
Meet Anatune’s New Support Manager
Posted on July 25th, 2014
I am pleased to confirm Alan Lockley’s appointment as Anatune’s new Support Manager. Alan joined Anatune in 2009 from Birmingham…
Use of Automated Sample Preparation for Aqueous Samples
Posted on July 23rd, 2014
On Wednesday 9th July, Dan Carrier, Anatune’s Application Laboratory Manager, gave a presentation at the LEAP meeting hosted by FERA…
GC-MS of Pesticides in High-Chlorophyll Samples
Posted on July 18th, 2014
At the recent European Pesticide Residues Workshop in Dublin, Richard Fussell of the UK Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA)…
The Ultimate Separation Machine
Posted on July 15th, 2014
One useful principle that can be applied to GC-MS method development is to get the mass spectrometer to do as…
Dr Kathy Ridgway Joins the Anatune Team
Posted on July 3rd, 2014
Our application laboratory team does some really great work and as a result, demands on our lab grow all the…
Preparing Samples with Solids – Automatically
Posted on June 23rd, 2014
If you are using either GC-MS or LC-MS; liquid phase samples containing solids can be very inconvenient to work with….
Latest Sample Preparation Tools for the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler
Posted on June 19th, 2014
GERSTEL continue to add more tools to the range of accessories that can be used with the MultiPurpose Sampler, with…
GC-MS of Food Volatiles – Why you need a Range of Sampling Techniques
Posted on June 16th, 2014
One important reason why the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) is favoured so strongly by analysts working with flavours and fragrances…
Students from the Perse School in Cambridge visit Anatune
Posted on June 12th, 2014
On Tuesday 10th June, we welcomed a group of sixth-form chemistry students from the Perse School in Cambridge. The students…
What do you know about Membrane Assisted Solvent Extraction?
Posted on June 11th, 2014
Membrane Assisted Solvent Extraction (MASE) is a useful extraction technique that can be fully automated using the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler…
Automated QuEChERS Extractions – A Case Study
Posted on June 6th, 2014
Teledyne Tekmar will be showcasing the AutoMate Q-40 at the European Pesticides Residues Workshop in Dublin from June 30th to…
Pyrolysis of Polymers and Adhesives
Posted on June 3rd, 2014
When analysing polymers and adhesives, thermal desorption and pyrolysis are two GC-MS sampling techniques that go hand-in-hand. Thermal desorption can…
Amber – Fake or the Real Thing?
Posted on May 30th, 2014
Amber is fossilised tree-resin that is millions of years old and is valued for jewellery making (and, interestingly, as an…
Why the Renaissance in GC?
Posted on May 28th, 2014
Andrew Golby and I attended the 38th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography in Riva del Garda, Italy last week. It…
The Use of Olfactometry to Study Taste and Odour Compounds in Water
Posted on May 16th, 2014
Recently, we have had a lot of interest in the use of GC-Olfactometry (GC-O) as a tool to assist in…
Anatune at EPRW in Dublin
Posted on May 16th, 2014
We have booked a stand at the European Pesticide Residues Workshop in Dublin at the end of June. We are…
Will we see you in Riva Del Garda?
Posted on May 16th, 2014
Andrew Golby and I are both attending the 38th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and 11th GCxGC Symposium in Riva…
A Matter of Taste (and Odour)
Posted on May 15th, 2014
There was a time when, for analytical chemists within the water industry, dealing with customer quality complaints was a nightmare….
Measuring off-Odours in Pharmaceutical Products
Posted on May 9th, 2014
The presence of an off-odour in a pharmaceutical product is a serious quality problem – even if there is no…
Goodbye to Matt Carson
Posted on May 9th, 2014
Matt Carson leaves Anatune this week after ten great years with the company. Matt has done a brilliant job as…
Automated Extraction of Plasticizers from Toys
Posted on May 7th, 2014
The US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Section 108 requires that children’s toys and child care articles be tested for…
A Big Thank You to All of our Customers…
Posted on May 1st, 2014
At GERSTEL’s recent International Sales Meeting, held at their headquarters in Mulheim, Germany, Anatune received the award for Outstanding Sales…
Anatune Wins Best Customer Service Award
Posted on April 23rd, 2014
Anatune has won the Best Customer Service award at the 2014 Business Excellence Awards, held this year at the Metropole…
QuEChERS Automation Workshop
Posted on April 9th, 2014
Last August we hosted the European launch of the Tekmar AutoMate Q40 QuEChERS automation Workbench, which stimulated considerable interest. Following…
Win 2 Days on our MultiFlex GCqTOF
Posted on April 3rd, 2014
The Agilent 7200 is a high resolution, accurate mass GC-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer. It is also the most powerful…
Adding More Capability to Dilute and Shoot
Posted on March 31st, 2014
As Andy Golby discussed in his recent post, for anyone involved in LC-MS or GC-MS the “Dilute and Shoot” approach to sample…
The Launch of the CF200 and Automated DNPH Analysis (A300)
Posted on March 20th, 2014
Automated DNPH Analysis (A300) Airborne aldehydes and ketones are collected by passing air through a cartridge containing 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH). Carbonyl…
Automating Dilute and Shoot
Posted on March 13th, 2014
Any analyst working with LC-MS or GC-MS will have noticed, how, over time, mass-specs keep getting more sensitive. Extra MS…
MultiFlex Powers through Headspace
Posted on March 12th, 2014
If you are using GC-MS for the analysis of dirty samples, the fundamental advantage of headspace sampling – in all…
Mass Spectrometry – Let’s all Speak the Same Language
Posted on March 6th, 2014
One of the minor frustrations of mass spectrometry is the way that different people often have different interpretations of terms…
Standards
Posted on February 19th, 2014
A group of visitors were being shown around a laboratory complex. The senior scientist, proudly walked the visitors past every…
How Good are Your Staff at GC Injection?
Posted on February 10th, 2014
Recently, Dan Carrier and I were having a discussion with an experienced analyst – very knowledgeable on LC-MS, less so…
Dynamic Headspace Sampling with the GERSTEL MPS MultiFlex
Posted on February 6th, 2014
When sampling volatile organic compounds from any matrix, there is a range of different headspace sampling techniques that can be…
Analysing for Unknowns in Leachables and Extractables
Posted on January 30th, 2014
The analysis of L&Es in pharmaceutical products has been a hot topic for a while. Recently, we have spoken with…
Analysing Volatile Leachables with the use of Automated Headspace Solvent Micro-Extraction (HSME)
Posted on January 28th, 2014
If you are currently using Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME) then this new headspace sampling technique will almost certainly be…
Large Volume Injection Revisited
Posted on January 22nd, 2014
The GERSTEL CIS 4 PTV Injector for GC-MS In this longer article, I discuss the topic of large volume injection…
Automating the Measurement of Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde in Air
Posted on January 16th, 2014
We have developed a fully automated solution for the processing of DNPH tubes and the analysis of the resultant extracts….
Things you can do with a MultiFlex (No.6) – Liquid Injection
Posted on January 10th, 2014
A lab manager in the North of England said to me the other day: “Your MultiFlex is great at those…
Workshops: Analysing for Unknowns by Accurate Mass GCqTOF
Posted on January 7th, 2014
The chances are, in the future, you will be asked to report far more detail about the composition of samples…