KR Analytical and IonSense recently sponsored a workshop on Food Quality & Safety which was held at the ICT in Prague and was organised by Professor Jana Hajslova and her colleagues. The aim of the workshop was to introduce people to the use of ambient ionisation techniques for the detection of food contaminants, adulterants and speciation of products. The empahsis was on the practical demonstration of the DART ions source as well as showing the ASAP probe. Informative lectures were presented by members of the BioCop project and also the manufactures of ambient ionsiation sources.
Many European countries were represented, including Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Slovenia, USA and United Kingdom. This led to a lively workshop with plenty of discussions which continued into the social dinner on the Monday evening!!
We plan to hold more of these workshops over the coming months, venues will be announced via this webiste and via email. Please contact us to register your interest in future events.
During 2010 KR Analytical will be attending various exhibition and conferences related to Mass Spectrometry and in particular the use of Ambient Ionsiation sources in MS. Here are some of the places you can meet us
May 23-27 American Mass Spec Society Annual meeting - Salt Lake City, see us on the Ionsense booth
September 5-8 British Mass Spec Society Annual meeting - Cardiff
When we said that a DART ion source requires no sample preparation, we didn’t really expect to see a complete crocodile. Admittedly it’s only a toy, but it’s still a first.
The photograph is courtesy of Professor Wolfgang Schwack’s group at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. You can see the complete paper in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2009 23: 2829-2835. “Rapid and non-destructive analysis of pthalic acid esters in toys made of poly vinyl chloride by direct analysis in real time single-quadrupole mass spectrometry”.
By Thorsten Rothenbacher and Wolfgang Schwack.
Some of the first DART users in Europe gathered at the IMSC 2009 for dinner at the Mill at the Dam restaurant. Present are Professor Dietrich Volmer, Dr Albert Koulman, Professor Michel Nielen, Dr Cris Lapthorn, Dr Brian Musselman, Elizabeth Crawford, Sue Kennerley. Behind the lens is Peter Ryan.
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