Recently, one of my colleagues from the UK emailed a link to a resource that should be helpful to chromatographers, both new to chromatography and experienced in chromatography: Guide to Sample Preparation (link to registration page to order the poster; a hard copy of the poster will be mailed to you. You can also click the image and it will take you to the registration page.). You can hang this complementary poster in your lab or office for quick and handy references on how to deal with samples.

We just released a new ion chromatography suppressor (Thermo Scientific Dionex ERS 500 Electrolytically Regenerated Suppressor) and I thought our blog readers would be interested in learning about the new features of this particular suppressor.

Many times our experts are asked by chemists and researchers if chromatography vials and closures can be re-used after an appropriate cleaning using laboratory dishwashers intended for the washing of lab glassware. To address this question, which turns out to be really important, two of our experts in the United States and the UK conducted a research study and presented the results in a technical note presented in this blog post.

I am really pleased to blog a botany research study using one of our Ion Chromatography systems coupled with Mass Spectrometry (IC-MS) as this is the first ion chromatography applications for botany on this blog!

Fluoroacetate (link to U.S. EPA)--a strong metabolic poison with no known antidotes--is commonly used as a rodenticide and predacide (control avian and mammalian wildlife) and has been banned or restricted in many countries. For example, the U.S. EPA has placed sodium fluoroacetate in Toxicity Category I indicating the highest degree for acute oral toxicity.

Wishing our blog readers a very Happy Holiday break! As some of our blog readers may be aware, we hosted a series of four webinars on our newly released High-Pressure Ion Chromatography (HPIC) technique this year. The  webinars have been extremely popular with analytical chemists, and I thought the holiday break would be a great time for those who had missed the webinars to view them at leisure!

Continuing the focus on the analysis of acrylamide in foods with this second blog post but with an ion chromatography (IC) application! (The first blog post was on ASE sample prep & LC-MS analysis of acrylamide.)

I recently sent out an announcement about our new vial closure systems and then realized perhaps our blog readers would probably love to try one out for free and not just take us at our word on how much better sealing the new closures provide! (Details on how to order your sample are below.)

Fish farming is rapidly becoming an alternative way to provide fish to the one billion humans who depend on fish as a source of primary protein. (Read more surprising fish farming facts with great photos at the Huffington Post.) But, like any type of farming, this type of farming too is beset by many challenges and problems one of which is managing the health of farmed fish by monitoring and controlling the balance of organic acids in sea water. Typically, fisheries monitor these organic acids using gas chromatography with derivatization. Therefore, I am so pleased to offer our readers a faster and more direct approach for analysis by using ion chromatography-mass spectrometry (IC-MS).

This blog post starts a regular feature in our blog: covering our recently released enewsletters and what was popular in a recent issue! Here, we present the top four articles in the August issue of Environmental eNews which were an eclectic mix of topics: