Keeping Up with Evolving Challenges in Pesticide Analysis

The analysis of pesticides and other contaminants in food presents ongoing challenges, particularly for laboratories conducting routine testing. Updated regulatory requirements require testing for expanded lists of pesticides and at ever lower detection levels. Multiresidue methods assist such labor...

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Published inLC GC North America Vol. 37; no. 11; pp. 818 - 822
Main Author Bush, Laura
Format Magazine Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Monmouth Junction Intellisphere, LLC 01.11.2019
MultiMedia Healthcare Inc
Subjects
Accuracy
Chromatography
Food
Government agencies
Ion exchange
Laboratories
Mass spectrometry
Metabolites
Methods
Organic chemistry
PCB
Pesticides
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Reproducibility
Scientific imaging
Software
Ireland
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Summary:The analysis of pesticides and other contaminants in food presents ongoing challenges, particularly for laboratories conducting routine testing. Updated regulatory requirements require testing for expanded lists of pesticides and at ever lower detection levels. Multiresidue methods assist such laboratories in handling demands for high throughput, but detecting ever-lower maximum residue limits can be difficult with such methods. One approach to address these demands is to develop methods that use high-resolution accurate mass (HRAM) mass spectrometry (MS). Jim Garvey, the Head of Food Chemistry at the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine, in Celbridge, Ireland, recently spoke to us about how his group develops methods, including those using HRAM-MS, to meet ever-changing demands in pesticide analysis.
ISSN:1527-5949
1939-1889