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Sample Profiling of Pesticide Formulations Using UV and MS Detection for Component Identification

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For the agricultural chemicals industry, the analytical quality control of pesticide products ensures that a consistent and effective product reaches the farm. More specifically, the detection, characterization, and quantitation of the active ingredient(s) as well as all other components in the formulation, including impurities and degradation products, are necessary to support product development, quality control,...

Nitrosamine Impurities: The Need to Verify

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The recent nitrosamine impurity crisis has brought into question the quality of many APIs (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) produced and sourced for a number of popular drugs, resulting in product recalls, lost profits, and regulatory actions. Within a drug manufacturing process that is increasingly outsourced and globalized, companies manufacturing the API or in-sourcing the API or...

Reflecting on Lessons in Leadership This Veteran’s Day

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Three Leadership Lessons Being a Veteran Taught Me Veteran’s Day is a time for us to honor those who served our country in the armed forces. It is a day that holds special meaning to me. As a cavalry officer in the United States Army, my experiences in both peacetime and combat shaped me as a...

Webinar Highlights – Improving Analytical Method Performance Through Quality Risk Management and a Design of Experiments Approach

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In our most recent Method Lifecycle Management webinar held Improving Analytical Method Performance Through Quality Risk Management and a Design of Experiments Approach, Joseph A. Turpin, Director of Chromatography Products and Services at S-Matrix Corporation and Tran Pham, Business Development Manager at Waters Corporation, presented an overview of Quality by Design approaches to analytical method development (AQbD), the regulatory views on this approach, examples of design of experiments in AQbD, and case studies demonstrating software assisted AQbD method development.

Waters Opens New Swedish Head Office and Open Access Laboratory

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On October 2, 2019, Waters proudly opened our new Swedish head office and laboratory in the House of Innovations, located in the center of Campus Solna next to Karolinska Institutet. The new facility features an open access laboratory designed to provide students, scientists and startup companies with an experienced technical staff and easy-to-use automation infrastructure...

Data Integrity Matters: Limiting Access to Tools That Could Be Used to Manipulate Data (Part 4)

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Suppressing Peak Integration Being able to optimize peak integration and identification, whether by resetting the method RT settings, manually identifying peaks or suppressing integration of specific known peaks are certainly tools which, in the wrong hands, with the wrong intent and without a robust training and review process, may be used by unscrupulous staff to...