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Posted on December 14th, 2020
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Posted on December 14th, 2020
The Anatune office will be closed from 12pm on Thursday 24th December and will re-open at 8:30am Monday 4th January….
Posted on November 10th, 2020
Welcome Kevin! It’s my pleasure to welcome Kevin Boyce as our Account Manager covering the Midlands and South East of…
Posted on November 6th, 2020
Nitrosamines continue to cause headaches for the pharmaceutical companies and CROs looking for the most effective ways of testing for…
Posted on October 19th, 2020
Organic solvents are widely used in the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), however, their presence in the final product…
Posted on August 11th, 2020
20/08 – 1/3 Method Development With Camila Liscio: Sample Prep 27/08 – 2/3 Method Development With Camila Liscio: Analysis 03/09…
Posted on July 23rd, 2020
You’re sitting in your car. The air-con is set to outside air. A very informative Radio 4 program about at-street-level…
Posted on July 15th, 2020
The content of this post first existed as a three part series published throughout June and July 2020. They were…
Posted on July 3rd, 2020
Welcome to the third edition of Tips and Tricks for Lab Efficiency. After this one, we will take a brief…
Posted on June 29th, 2020
With harvest a couple of months away, farmers and food producers will be keeping a watchful eye on the long…
Posted on June 26th, 2020
Another Friday, another host of tips and tricks to get your lab running a little bit more smoothly when things…
Posted on June 19th, 2020
Times of disruption often offer us a chance to change habits, take stock and reflect on the ways we’ve always…
Posted on June 2nd, 2020
Download the app note Sign up to eApps See the webinars Automated SIFT-MS is a highly effective way of analysing…
Posted on June 1st, 2020
*Picture taken in February before social distancing measures were put in place. Free webinar Thursday, June 18, 3:00 PM –…
Posted on May 6th, 2020
It’s fair to say that analytical science hasn’t always been defined by its dynamism or agility. Things tend to take…
Posted on April 22nd, 2020
Thoughts on the Lockdown and its Impact on our Laboratory This is how it used to be. You would enter…
Posted on March 31st, 2020
Single use plastics have been a major point for a number of years but many people aren’t aware of the…
Posted on March 20th, 2020
Have you ever left a glass of water out for a bit too long and found that it tasted a…
Posted on February 19th, 2020
Click here to watch our on-demand webinar: The Anatune Nitrosamine Forum 2020 Back in November, we wrote a short blog…
Posted on February 12th, 2020
This document features examples taken from Building A Business Case – Email us for a copy. Constant media coverage on…
Posted on February 3rd, 2020
Full application note Organochlorine compounds, along with other VOCs such as the BTEX group of compounds (benzene, toluene and the…
Posted on January 16th, 2020
On the 2nd of April 2020, we will be hosting The Anatune Nitrosamine Forum here in Cambridge. In this video,…
Posted on January 14th, 2020
Today is a sad day for many who consider Windows 7 one of the best operating systems to come out…
Posted on January 8th, 2020
This time last year we peered our beady eyes into our crystal balls and made some predictions for the year…
Posted on December 20th, 2019
With the Christmas holidays nearly upon us, I wanted to take the opportunity to wish everyone – our customers, our…
Posted on December 17th, 2019
What have Post-it notes, Silly Putty, Velcro, microwave ovens and The Analytical Scientist and Anatune’s latest Application Note on thermal…
Posted on December 11th, 2019
Unfortunately we’re having problems with our phone lines in our Cambridge office. If for any reason you need to get…
Posted on December 10th, 2019
While having a clear out of Anatune HQ, we’ve come across another copy of Acrylamide in Food by Tanya Y…
Posted on November 28th, 2019
How many vials do you use in a year? Do you give much thought to the quality? Or do you…
Posted on November 12th, 2019
Probable carcinogens – N-nitrosamines – continue to keep pharmaceutical companies in the crosshairs of health regulators. From the active drug substances to…
Posted on November 8th, 2019
You might remember the news back in January that Metaldehyde was banned due to fears of the environmental impact of…
Posted on October 22nd, 2019
Autumn is often a time for change with the night’s drawing in, the leaves turning orange and the woolly jumpers…
Posted on October 21st, 2019
We’ve long been pretty widely referred to as ‘those plucky, excellent looking bunch of scientists who stick autosamplers on the…
Posted on October 16th, 2019
N.B. This blog was originally sent as a letter to our mailing list and published here retrospectively. Dear reader, On…
Posted on September 7th, 2019
Anatune Chief Operating Officer Alan ‘Kryptonite Brand’ Lockley has decided it’s a good idea to ride his bike a hideously…
Posted on September 5th, 2019
At last, a thermal desorption system is available that can be used with both GC/MS and SIFT-MS and has the…
Posted on September 3rd, 2019
Dates across the country are filling up for our DiLLME tour. Thanks to everyone who’s signed up nice and early….
Posted on August 21st, 2019
It’s been a few weeks now since the end of the event. Those of you who attended, we hope you…
Posted on August 1st, 2019
A chance to learn about Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Micro Extraction Traditional liquid-liquid extraction qualifies as a tried and tested extraction technique….
Posted on July 23rd, 2019
Until now, very few centrifuges have been certified as safe for use with flammable solvents. Those that are certified, have…
Posted on July 15th, 2019
As promised, we move onto a round-up of the second and final day of the 2019 SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting….
Posted on July 12th, 2019
And so concludes the 2019 SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting. It was a great showcase of the diversity of how this…
Posted on June 20th, 2019
CMAC have proof of a concept that opens up the possibility to continuously manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients. This is big…
Posted on June 18th, 2019
There is some confusion out there, as to how precise a tool, Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry is. Time…
Posted on June 13th, 2019
Recently, Mark wrote a blog post on the Multi-Port Inlet (MPI) for SIFT-MS, referring to process monitoring. Since we installed…
Posted on June 4th, 2019
With the clock ticking for older versions of Windows operating systems, many people’s attention has turned to operating system upgrades…
Posted on May 29th, 2019
People often ask me, Mark, what’s your favourite tube? Is it the London Underground? Perhaps it’s YouTube with its thousands…
Posted on May 28th, 2019
Anatune is pleased to welcome Adam Gladwin on board, as our new Sales Manager. Adam has over 28 years’ experience…
Posted on May 21st, 2019
In collaboration with our partners, Crawford Scientific, Anatune is hosting two training events in June: HPLC Fundamentals | Tuesday 11th…
Posted on May 15th, 2019
This 2 day event will take place at the Hotel Felix and Anatune on the 9th/10th July 2019, and will…
Posted on May 10th, 2019
Anatune are hosting a demonstration of the GERSTEL MPS Robotic in County Westmeath, Ireland. This one day event will take…
Posted on April 25th, 2019
Anatune Ltd and Syft Technologies host the Interest and Discussion Symposium for Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry. This two…
Posted on April 9th, 2019
Pyrolysis-GC/MS – a powerful yet under utilised technique when it comes to polymer analysis. In my previous life at CRO…
Posted on April 2nd, 2019
A Little Background: We’ve long been promoting the amazing work done by Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) and Joy Milne…
Posted on April 1st, 2019
In January 2020, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7. This means that security upgrades to Windows 7 will cease and,…
Posted on March 18th, 2019
Click here or call +44 (0)1223 279210 to reserve your place. Full Agenda. Following on from Friday’s post, we’ve had…
Posted on March 15th, 2019
Click here or call +44 (0)1223 279210 to reserve your place. Full Agenda. Does your lab use dynamic headspace or…
Posted on March 11th, 2019
We have a copy of Acrylamide in Food by Tanya Y Curtis and Nigel G Halford to give away. Dr…
Posted on March 7th, 2019
We can now confirm our third guest speaker for the 2-day Lifecycle of Food Analysis Workshop is Neil Owen, Head…
Posted on March 5th, 2019
Dr Andrew Feilden will be joining us for our workshop – Lifecycle of Food Analysis, across April 2nd and 3rd….
Posted on March 1st, 2019
Anatune’s Alan Lockley and Lisa McGowan attended the launch of the new Agilent 8890 GC in Barcelona last week. Here…
Posted on February 26th, 2019
Those of you who have been to our demo lab know we like our GC/Q-TOFs. You may also know that…
Posted on February 21st, 2019
We are delighted to confirm that Dr Tanya Curtis will be joining us on the 2nd of April 2019 for…
Posted on February 18th, 2019
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about the benefit we provide purely in technical and financial terms….
Posted on February 8th, 2019
Our partners at Crawford Scientific have generously donated two 12-month subscriptions to CHROMacademy for a couple of lucky winners. These…
Posted on February 7th, 2019
Now you have the dates firmly saved, it’s time to let you know a bit more about what you can…
Posted on January 29th, 2019
Our contemporaries at University of Portsmouth have released their study Comparison of different monitoring methods for the measurement of metaldehyde…
Posted on January 24th, 2019
On Tuesday 29th January, Dr Vaughan Langford of Syft Technologies and Anatune’s Dr Mark Perkins will be collaborating on a…
Posted on January 22nd, 2019
Anatune is hosting a two day Workshop in Cambridge, looking at contaminant analysis throughout the life cycle of food. Topics…
Posted on January 17th, 2019
Gastropod garrotting, Metaldehyde, has been banned in the UK due to the environmental impact of its extensive use. Regardless of…
Posted on January 7th, 2019
You can’t change or improve anything without making dependable chemical measurements, so to some degree, predictions in the World of…
Posted on December 14th, 2018
Our office closes at 12pm on 24th December, and will remain closed until 8.30am on 2nd January 2019. If you…
Posted on November 22nd, 2018
Anatune is pleased to welcome Joe Perkins-Hall on board, as Account Manager for the North of England. Prior to joining…
Posted on November 21st, 2018
Watermation is just around the corner on the 27th and 28th November. Amongst the many talks, Derek Slater at SembCorp…
Posted on November 15th, 2018
Anatune are exhibiting at the Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring (WWEM) meeting next week, and if you haven’t already registered to go,…
Posted on November 14th, 2018
Flavour and fragrance matching, whether it is natural sources such as flowers or your competitor’s products, requires the analyst to…
Posted on November 5th, 2018
We’re proud to announce a presentation from South East Water at our Watermation Workshop on the 27th and 28th November….
Posted on October 26th, 2018
Our application laboratory team does some really great work and as a result, demands on our lab grow all the…
Posted on October 18th, 2018
The lab is at the heart of everything we do at Anatune and there’s been a particular buzz about the…
Posted on October 11th, 2018
This is Big News! When you are doing product characterisation, or looking for unknowns in your samples, would you like…
Posted on October 4th, 2018
When you are asked to look behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum, you don’t say no. I was…
Posted on September 25th, 2018
The water industry uses liquid liquid extraction ubiquitously on everything from the water we drink to waste water. Recently, Anatune…
Posted on September 18th, 2018
On 10th October in collaboration with Agilent, I will be hosting a Webinar showcasing the environmental work we’ve done over…
Posted on September 13th, 2018
Analysts have mixed experiences when using large volume injections, but most of them have never had the benefit of the…
Posted on September 10th, 2018
Marvin Shaw’s Keynote Speech There’s been much talk about the possibilities and limitations of real-time volatile analysis in our industry…
Posted on September 7th, 2018
BMSS 39 is fast approaching so it’s high time we started looking ahead to what’s going on. First and foremost…
Posted on August 14th, 2018
This is an exciting time. The sensitivity of the mass specs has reached a turning-point where, in the analysis of…
Posted on August 14th, 2018
You probably know that the World Health Organisation recommends a low fat diet, limiting saturated fat intake and maintaining a…
Posted on August 14th, 2018
I am a final-year PhD student from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Portsmouth. I am…
Posted on June 20th, 2018
New Product Development (NPD) is a skill which takes years of practice and training and the techniques vary from flavour…
Posted on June 12th, 2018
Bryan White is the GC and GCMS Product Specialist at Agilent Technologies. Bryan has kindly agreed to guest present at…
Posted on June 8th, 2018
Anatune would like to invite you to the launch of the new Agilent GC/Q-TOF 7250. The launch will take place…
Posted on May 30th, 2018
Dr Hannah Florance is the Metabolomics Specialist and Mass Spectrometrist at the University of Edinburgh. Hannah has kindly agreed to…
Posted on May 24th, 2018
The Road to Riva We have raised over £2,500 for Parkinson’s from supporters of our road trip to Italy and…
Posted on May 24th, 2018
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is undergoing dramatic growth and is sparking some amazing job opportunities. Anatune is…
Posted on May 23rd, 2018
The detection of odour or trying to find out what it is you are smelling is a complex challenge. The human…
Posted on May 17th, 2018
Extractables and leachables from food packaging are a major source of food contamination and taints. With the move away from…
Posted on May 15th, 2018
Earlier this year, Mark Perkins, one of our SIFT-MS specialists took our SIFT-MS to work with Thomas Bacquart and his…
Posted on May 10th, 2018
Today, Alan Lockley and I set out on the out-bound leg of our expedition to the 42nd Capillary Chromatography Symposium…
Posted on May 10th, 2018
Dr Thomas Howard, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. Dr Howard has kindly agreed to guest…
Posted on May 9th, 2018
Where GC-MS or LC-MS are used to make chemical measurements, there is always a need to prepare the samples prior…
Posted on May 9th, 2018
All analytical data is comprised of both information and noise and, sometimes, without the aid of statistics, it can be…
Posted on May 9th, 2018
Design of Experiments (DoE) is the most efficient way to develop analytical methods but has required a grasp of statistics…
Posted on May 3rd, 2018
Agilent Technologies are delighted to announce their GC/GCMS Technical Users Meeting, which is being held at Teagasc, Dublin, on Thursday…
Posted on May 1st, 2018
Following on from 2017’s Highly Commended award (Water category) from the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) to Affinity Water, which…
Posted on April 30th, 2018
Last Thursday evening at the 2018 Business Excellence Forum, for the second year running, Anatune won the BEFA award for…
Posted on April 25th, 2018
As many of you know, I recently started my maternity leave from Anatune. A lot of our customers in Scotland…
Posted on April 20th, 2018
Changes in food safety legislation mean that there is a need to reduce the asparagine content of potatoes and cereals…
Posted on April 17th, 2018
Ok, it’s rare to be offered a free lunch (come and visit us at Anatune for a lab demo and…
Posted on April 10th, 2018
Anatune are delighted to be sponsoring the second Advances in the Chemical Analysis of Food at Burlington House at the…
Posted on April 5th, 2018
Here at Anatune we will be running a 2-day workshop on the 19th-20th June 2018, to help scientists working in…
Posted on April 5th, 2018
Phil Kay, PhD, is a Senior Analytics Consultant for JMP, a business unit of SAS. Phil has kindly agreed to…
Posted on March 28th, 2018
We talk a lot about how automated sample preparation gives you better data – but, you would be correct to…
Posted on March 27th, 2018
I was pleased to attend the joint London Toxicology Group/UKIAFT meeting on Friday 9th March 2018. Forensics covers a broad…
Posted on March 23rd, 2018
Videos are a great way to learn. If you need to brush-up your knowledge on any topic, you can do…
Posted on March 20th, 2018
Automation is our bread and butter. It’s what we do: providing analytical solutions which feature automated sample preparation coupled to…
Posted on March 16th, 2018
Anatune’s involvement in the search for a test for Parkinson’s disease forms part of a BBC documentary that was first…
Posted on March 13th, 2018
In 1928, Otto Frederick Rohwedder established the ultimate bench-mark – by inventing the bread slicing machine. The separation funnel is…
Posted on March 6th, 2018
On the 19th and 20th June 2018, Anatune will run a two-day workshop in Cambridge, to introduce innovations that are…
Posted on March 1st, 2018
Anatune and GERSTEL are very pleased to attend and present at the joint London Toxicology Group (LTG)/United Kingdom and Ireland…
Posted on February 23rd, 2018
Anatune have been the UK and Ireland distributor for Syft Technologies for three years now and the Principal Scientist/Consultant, Dr…
Posted on February 20th, 2018
For as many years as I can remember, there have been concerns expressed – in many quarters, about the threat…
Posted on February 16th, 2018
Automated sample preparation will have a strong, positive impact upon the use of LC-MS and GC-MS in the life sciences….
Posted on February 13th, 2018
On 27th February to the 1st March, the Agilent Environmental and Food MS Seminar is being held at Twickenham. The…
Posted on February 6th, 2018
Students from Cedar International School in the British Virgin Isles. January is a cold dark month, when many of…
Posted on February 2nd, 2018
Introduction If you still carry out liquid-liquid extraction manually, and are fed-up with the associated costs, mistakes and hazards, then…
Posted on January 30th, 2018
We can now confirm that the Guest Speaker for the 2-day Aroma Workshop is Neil Owen, IFRA-AWG Chairman. Neil has…
Posted on January 23rd, 2018
Following a successful meeting in 2016, I am pleased to announce that this event is being repeated which is jointly…
Posted on January 19th, 2018
With the Christmas tree back in the loft and the inevitable need for an extra belt hole, Christmas has sadly…
Posted on January 4th, 2018
We at Anatune are going to be running a 2 day workshop on the 6th-7th March to help people in…
Posted on January 2nd, 2018
I have been keen to take an active role with the British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS) for some time and…
Posted on December 20th, 2017
Over the last few years, there has been lots of media coverage of a remarkable lady called Joy Milne, who…
Posted on December 20th, 2017
As we approach the Christmas festivities, many of you will be enjoying a festive tipple. Analysis of alcohol seems to…
Posted on December 15th, 2017
We have great things coming your way in 2018, that have come out of the work done in 2017. So…
Posted on December 8th, 2017
HTC-15 is taking place on the 24th-26th January 2018 in Cardiff, Wales. It’s a focused industry event which focuses on…
Posted on November 30th, 2017
Agilent have launched a new GC/Q-TOF, (the Agilent 7250) and we look forward to the delivery of our instrument in…
Posted on November 28th, 2017
Anatune has recently had the privilege of working with Professor Perdita Barran’s group at the University of Manchester, on a…
Posted on November 21st, 2017
Using SIFT-MS to quantify volatile impurities such as formaldehyde. Date: 14th December 2017 Time: 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT /…
Posted on November 14th, 2017
I am delighted to share the news (if you have not already heard) that registrations are now open for the…
Posted on November 10th, 2017
Anatune’s CEO, Ray Perkins, will be giving a talk at this event, entitled ‘Sample Preparation – Automation 101’. Automating your…
Posted on November 7th, 2017
On the 2nd of November, the Institute of Chemical Engineers held their 2017 Global Awards in Birmingham. Affinity Water came…
Posted on October 31st, 2017
Two weeks ago, I gave a talk with this title at a meeting organised by the Chromatographic Society (Advances in…
Posted on October 24th, 2017
I will be presenting at the Royal Society of Chemistry Theatre at Lab Innovations 2017 on the 1st November, which…
Posted on October 24th, 2017
In light of recent regulatory changes, this one-day symposium will bring you an update from regulatory, industry and academic experts. …
Posted on October 24th, 2017
I am the latest member to join the applications team here at Anatune as an Applications Chemist. Prior to joining…
Posted on October 20th, 2017
Earlier this month, we attended the Agilent GC/Q-TOF User Group Meeting at MIB in Manchester, which saw a great set…
Posted on October 17th, 2017
I am very pleased to say that Affinity Water (alongside Anatune and JR Pridham Services) have been shortlisted for an…
Posted on October 13th, 2017
I have just been made aware of a really interesting article in Octobers edition of Compounding World Magazine and wanted…
Posted on October 10th, 2017
SIFT-MS is one of the fastest growing analytical techniques, with a sizeable community of analysts using it for a variety…
Posted on October 10th, 2017
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry offers some big benefits for analysts working within pharmaceutical and contract research organisations. Analyses…
Posted on October 4th, 2017
Not all application notes are created equal. Occasionally, application notes are produced that go on to become classics and form…
Posted on October 3rd, 2017
Until the end of December 2017, we have a great promotional offer on CombiPAL-to-MPS upgrades. This offer enables CombiPAL users…
Posted on September 22nd, 2017
Anatune has now been Syft Technologies’ UK distributor for just over 2½ years and a number of our customers are…
Posted on September 19th, 2017
Recently one of our Applications Chemists, Jon Dunscombe, celebrated his wedding in Brazil and returned with a sample of the…
Posted on September 14th, 2017
The 38th BMSS Annual Conference took place last week at The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and, by…
Posted on September 12th, 2017
I’ve just returned from my Summer Holidays and when I opened up my email for the first time in 2…
Posted on September 8th, 2017
Agilent Technologies is delighted to announce their 2017 UK GC/Q-TOF User Forum, which is being held on the 5th and…
Posted on August 24th, 2017
When they have successfully completed a piece of applications work in our lab, our chemists will, whenever possible, produce a…
Posted on August 18th, 2017
It’s a lovely weekend, so let’s get some friends over and have a BBQ. The beer and wine flows as the…
Posted on August 15th, 2017
Syft Technologies have been working with a number of automotive manufacturers for the last few years to investigate the significant…
Posted on August 14th, 2017
Single-channel pipettes and syringes are common laboratory tools widely used for liquid handling purposes. They both have pros and cons…
Posted on August 9th, 2017
The Robots are coming and they are better than humans!!! Nothing to panic about here but your job is likely…
Posted on August 8th, 2017
Recently two of our application chemists Kathy Ridgway and Jon Dunscombe visited Buxton in the Peak District with the SIFT-MS. …
Posted on July 25th, 2017
Why are Volatile Biomarkers Important in Biomedical Research? The pattern of individual’s volatile metabolites (volatolome) can be used to understand…
Posted on July 18th, 2017
When a powerful new analytical technique comes along, it always offers novel ways of looking at existing problems – whatever…
Posted on July 13th, 2017
Ok, so its not a LEGO GC-MS, but those of you that read my blog post last month will be…
Posted on July 7th, 2017
A Guest Blog Post Polymers are some of the most versatile materials in existence and are used in all aspects…
Posted on July 4th, 2017
Figure 1: Personalised Metabolomics Solution at the Synthetic and Systems Biology Lab at the University of Edinburgh – ‘Scotland’s Beastie’…
Posted on June 29th, 2017
This month’s edition of The Analytical Scientist contains a very interesting and informative article by Professor Murray McEwan, Chief Technical…
Posted on June 28th, 2017
Prague – on this occasion!! Anatune’s Mark Perkins (on screen) delivers a demonstration of SIFT-MS automation to SYFT Technologies…
Posted on June 22nd, 2017
Watch Jeff build his creation in double-quick time! How Can I get One? We have 50 kits to give…
Posted on June 21st, 2017
3-Monochloropropanediol (3-MCPD), 2-Monochloropropanediol (2-MCPD) and Glycidol are contaminants that are present in a variety of food samples. These compounds can…
Posted on June 6th, 2017
For all businesses, travel comes with significant costs. There is no substitute for getting face-to-face with people, but there…
Posted on June 1st, 2017
Last week, Chris Sandy (Sandcastle Consulting Ltd) visited Anatune to train our applications chemists in some of the features of…
Posted on May 31st, 2017
Have you had the uncomfortable experience of interacting with an analytical instrument supplier, with little understanding of the Pharmaceutical Industry…
Posted on May 30th, 2017
The flavour of a food or beverage engages far more sensory input than taste alone. From a biological perspective, flavour…
Posted on May 26th, 2017
Anatune’s Ray Perkins congratulates GERSTEL on its 50th Year GERSTEL GmbH was founded by Eberhard Gerstel Senior in 1967 and…
Posted on May 23rd, 2017
The 11th Water Industry Achievement Awards are being held tonight in Birmingham. This events objective is to showcase and reward…
Posted on May 11th, 2017
In February 2017, Anatune was pleased to deliver an automated Voice200ultra SIFT-MS to Intertek Pharmaceutical Services in Manchester. Intertek is…
Posted on May 4th, 2017
Landfill sites and other sources of biogas benefit from trace gas analysis. Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) has…
Posted on May 2nd, 2017
Automated determination of nicotine and its metabolites in blood. In the race to keep up with new and suspected doping…
Posted on April 27th, 2017
The water industry seems to be in a constant battle with taste and odour issues – the biggest culprits being…
Posted on April 25th, 2017
Anatune scooped the Award for Most Innovative Company at the 2017 Business Excellence Forum The Business Excellence Forum is a…
Posted on April 11th, 2017
On 1st March 2012 I began working as an Account Manager for Anatune. I’ve just passed my 5 year Anniversary…
Posted on April 4th, 2017
A few months ago, I was asked by some prospective customers to pay them a visit, to discuss a sample…
Posted on March 31st, 2017
I joined Anatune in October 2015 as an Applications Chemist. I had spent the preceding 10 years in roles in…
Posted on March 23rd, 2017
Our Applications Laboratory Manager, Dan Carrier, will soon be giving an in-depth presentation into the uses of Instrument Top Sample…
Posted on March 22nd, 2017
An interesting piece has been written by Quantum Analytics over in the US highlighting the advantages of real-time volatile analysis…
Posted on March 16th, 2017
At the recent Agilent Environmental and Food Meeting, I had a number of delegates asking me for the most recent…
Posted on March 16th, 2017
Many forensic toxicology service labs are facing increasing casework, often times with reduced staff numbers. Having had many years of…
Posted on March 14th, 2017
January 4th, 2016… that’s when my life as an Application Chemist here at Anatune began. Thing is, instrumental analytical chemistry…
Posted on March 8th, 2017
Here at Anatune we highly value automation. Automation can help save time, efforts and often costs. If we strictly focus…
Posted on March 7th, 2017
Over the last 18 months we have been working in partnership with Syft Technologies to enhance the potential of…
Posted on March 1st, 2017
John Quick is Principal Scientist at ALS in Coventry, UK. He has more than 25 years experience in the analysis…
Posted on February 23rd, 2017
We’ve all been there in the lab watching our solid phase extraction (SPE) manifold and whilst you did your best…
Posted on February 17th, 2017
If you’ve read my blog posts recently, you’ll know of my excitement about this meeting. As I’ve said before, it’s…
Posted on February 16th, 2017
Some of you may be aware that for the past year the EPSRC has been reviewing all of its research…
Posted on February 14th, 2017
Our newest recruit of 2017, we would like to welcome you to Jon Dunscombe, who has joined our ever growing…
Posted on February 9th, 2017
To provide first class customer support, Anatune invests in its engineers. We take every training opportunity that is offered to…
Posted on February 2nd, 2017
Nigel Halford of Rothamsted Research has been working with Anatune to develop a fully automated solution for amino acid analysis…
Posted on January 30th, 2017
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry is a new and fast growing technique – and no-one in Ireland is using…
Posted on January 25th, 2017
Having the ability to constantly monitor a water source(s) for pesticides throughout the water treatment process and determine if the…
Posted on January 24th, 2017
Coming up between the 7th and 9th February is the Agilent Environmental and Food Mass Spectrometry User Meeting, which is…
Posted on January 13th, 2017
From a forensic toxicology point of view, human hair samples are extremely well suited for determining a person’s consumption pattern…
Posted on January 11th, 2017
Our customer support team have had a great year in 2016. How do we know? Because you’ve told us so….
Posted on January 6th, 2017
Learn how you could save money, solvent, time and get results that are faster and more reproducible! Anatune, the distributors…
Posted on December 22nd, 2016
Those of you that read my blog from February 2016, will know I am involved in the Royal Society of…
Posted on December 22nd, 2016
This is always a brilliant meeting. This will be the 16th occasion that this meeting has gone ahead, and my…
Posted on December 14th, 2016
And it’s nice to be proved right!!! The Automated SIFT-MS began life as an informal development project with no specific…
Posted on December 9th, 2016
It is important that packaging doesn’t contaminate the food it contains. Agilent have published an interesting video on YouTube that…
Posted on November 25th, 2016
You may have noticed that, here at Anatune, we actively guide our customers towards our fully comprehensive support contract. What…
Posted on November 22nd, 2016
Sensitive SBSE determination of free acids and phenols – along with the usual suspects. Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE) and…
Posted on November 17th, 2016
Metabolomics studies focus on the analysis of small molecules (MW<2000) in biological matrices, processing relatively large sets of samples to…
Posted on November 16th, 2016
We have managed to obtain 2 copies of a book ‘A History of European Mass Spectrometry’ which we would like…
Posted on November 10th, 2016
In October, Anatune attended the Diamond Jubilee Year ChromSoc meeting hosted by Syngenta Research Laboratories. The meeting was accompanied with…
Posted on November 8th, 2016
We are all busy people. If something goes wrong, we want it fixed now. Why wait if you don’t have…
Posted on November 3rd, 2016
It is said that the majority of people are ready to do anything to save the planet – so long…
Posted on November 1st, 2016
Automated DLLME using the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler In analytical sample preparation, Liquid-Liquid Extraction (LLE) is as old as the…
Posted on October 20th, 2016
On Monday, I was fortunate enough to spend the day at Anatune, in Cambridge. I had emailed Dan Carrier, their…
Posted on October 19th, 2016
If you want authentic Scotch, you obviously go to Scotland and this meant there was only one place to host…
Posted on October 14th, 2016
Following our excursion to Eastbourne, we packed up the SIFT-MS and headed North to a customers site for a couple…
Posted on October 12th, 2016
Anatune is pleased to welcome Eleanor Miller on board, as our Forensics Specialist and Accounts Manager for Scotland. Prior to…
Posted on October 7th, 2016
Recently I have been working on the automation of several workflows for metabolomics applications. As it usually happens in busy…
Posted on October 4th, 2016
This September, we once again took our Voice200ultra SIFT-MS on the road, with visits to customers and conferences. The first…
Posted on September 21st, 2016
When we perform your next instrument install or upgrade, we will probably ask permission to take a photo of it…
Posted on September 7th, 2016
Syft Technologies are holding a live Webinar on September 15th – ‘Forget Chromatography: Comprehensive Instant Analysis with SIFT-MS’. In this…
Posted on August 31st, 2016
The 37th BMSS Annual Meeting is being held on the 13th-15th September, at the Winter Gardens in Eastbourne and Anatune…
Posted on August 24th, 2016
On the 7th July, we held a Webinar on the analysis of e-liquids and emissions to meet the requirements of…
Posted on July 22nd, 2016
On Tuesday, 4th October and Wednesday, 5th of October, Anatune is running two one-day workshops on chromatography sample preparation and…
Posted on July 21st, 2016
The composition of human breath varies depending primarily upon physiological and pathophysiological state, diet, exercise and environmental factors. A great…
Posted on July 19th, 2016
The Field Arson accounts for significant financial losses each year, as well as substantial loss of life. According to The…
Posted on July 12th, 2016
What is Acrylamide and why is it a Problem? Acrylamide is a chemical that is produced naturally during cooking at…
Posted on July 5th, 2016
There are eight SIFT-MS reagent ions (H3O+, NO+, O2+, O–, O2–, OH–, NO2–, and NO3–) for rapid, comprehensive gas analysis. There…
Posted on July 5th, 2016
The date of this one day meeting is Wednesday 7th September 2016, and is being hosted by the National Centre…
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
Anatune will be at Metabolomics 2016 next week in Dublin. We will be demonstrating high throughput, just-in-time, metabolomics sample preparation…
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
Why do we measure Amino Acids? Amino acids are both key metabolites in primary metabolism and the structural building blocks…
Posted on June 14th, 2016
Anatune will be holding a Webinar on Thursday 7th July at 2pm (GBT) on the analysis of e-liquids and emissions…
Posted on June 8th, 2016
I have been involved with the Royal Society of Chemistry Food group for several years and this year, we organised…
Posted on June 1st, 2016
Manual sample preparation of solid and viscous samples such as vegetative matter, tissues or viscous liquids can be a time…
Posted on May 25th, 2016
The technology of SIFT-MS is developing rapidly in ways that are expanding what it can do still further. SIFT-MS offers…
Posted on May 24th, 2016
Patrik Spanel and David Smith with Anatune’s Ray Perkins and Mark Perkins, above. On Tuesday 17th May, we were…
Posted on May 19th, 2016
A recent article published in Journal of Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry (DOI 10.1007/s00216-016-9537-5) details the automation of a liquid-liquid extraction…
Posted on May 12th, 2016
Great gas chromatographers create elegant methods, in the same way that great composers create elegant music. In GC and in…
Posted on May 10th, 2016
The Early History of Metabolomics Back in 1997, reliable, modern LC-MS systems were science fiction: ion traps were the only…
Posted on May 5th, 2016
There are many things you can do with a Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometer that would be impossible (or…
Posted on May 3rd, 2016
Off-flavours and odours in foods now constitute the most common complaint in the consumer food industry. According to food and…
Posted on April 28th, 2016
What is Metabolomics? Metabolomics (also known as metabonomics or metabolic phenotyping) is core discipline in modern bioscience. Metabolomics involves the…
Posted on April 26th, 2016
There are many methods for identifying ketones and aldehydes in building and other materials. Whilst formaldehyde is used for producing…
Posted on April 20th, 2016
The Field The soil microbiota is responsible for many ecosystem functions such as plant growth regulation, nutrient cycling and carbon…
Posted on April 19th, 2016
In liquid chromatography, changing column to improve the selectivity of your separation is a no brainer. In fact, it’s a…
Posted on April 15th, 2016
Sample prep automation gives valuable advantages: Greater productivity Improved data quality Faster sample turnaround We introduced our Lunch and Learn…
Posted on April 14th, 2016
No longer satisfied with counting calories and grams of fat, today’s consumers want to know that their food is free…
Posted on April 7th, 2016
How time flies…! A year has passed since I began working for Anatune, and in many ways, the last twelve…
Posted on April 5th, 2016
The GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) automates your GC and LC sample prep. You designed the sample prep method You got…
Posted on March 31st, 2016
The Field Edible oils are vegetable-based oils extracted from olives, corn, peanuts and other sources that are used in a…
Posted on March 24th, 2016
Metabolomics usually requires the preparation of extensive sample sets to allow successful differentiation between sample types. Hence, good analytical data…
Posted on March 22nd, 2016
The date for this years’ GC/Q-TOF Interest Group Meeting has been set for Wednesday 7th September, and will be hosted…
Posted on March 15th, 2016
As a technique, Gas Chromatography is very well established, but that’s not to say there is lack of new developments….
Posted on March 11th, 2016
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry is a powerful new technology that offers the potential for great improvements in the…
Posted on March 1st, 2016
Having use of a high resolution, accurate mass GC-MS, such as the MultiFlex GC/Q-TOF offers a much greater ability to…
Posted on February 25th, 2016
Tedlar bags are a convenient and cost-effective option for sampling volatile organic compounds, for example, toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) in…
Posted on February 22nd, 2016
As an avid reader of The Economist, I was interested to come across this article concerning new technology being applied…
Posted on February 18th, 2016
To be, or not to be??….. No… not that RSC!! I have been a member of the other RSC (Royal…
Posted on February 16th, 2016
Virtually every lab (at least in Europe) running volatile organic compounds in soils does so by static headspace. Over the…
Posted on February 11th, 2016
At the end of January, Syft Technologies’ Dr Barry Prince delivered a webinar on ‘SIFT-MS and its Use in Environmental…
Posted on February 4th, 2016
For those that read our blog post this week, the Horse vs Zebra tail now has an extra dimension. Following…
Posted on February 2nd, 2016
Things aren’t always what they seem! Last month in the lab, we have been working on taint application that has…
Posted on February 1st, 2016
Today, Monday 1st of February is Anatune’s 20th Birthday. The team are all in the office and today we are…
Posted on January 29th, 2016
In the automation of sample preparation methods, there are a few things that only a centrifuge can do properly: Separate…
Posted on January 27th, 2016
I have attended many Agilent events over the years and they are always worth attending. The priority given to presentations…
Posted on January 21st, 2016
An interesting article on the BBC News website – ‘Is there a danger from scented products?’. I don’t think I…
Posted on January 12th, 2016
Our newest recruit of 2016, we would like to welcome you to Camilla Liscio, who has joined our applications team…
Posted on December 21st, 2015
Apart from Christmas trees (real ones of course!), for most people, the arrival of Christmas is signalled by the smell…
Posted on December 15th, 2015
In the New Year, we will be offering free on-site seminars on the automation of sample extraction. These events will…
Posted on December 10th, 2015
We have decided to run more workshops on Metabolomics, in co-operation with our friends at Agilent Technologies and GERSTEL. The…
Posted on December 9th, 2015
It’s just over a year now, since I started working at Anatune as an Applications Chemist and Training Co-ordinator; what…
Posted on December 3rd, 2015
Flavour Development Analysis and Perception in Food and Beverages, edited by J.K. Parker, J.S. Elmore and L. Methven. This is…
Posted on December 1st, 2015
We can now generate fantastically rich data sets from the latest high-resolution mass spectrometers such as the Agilent 7200 GC/Q-TOF….
Posted on November 27th, 2015
“80% of people know about the Pareto Principle, only 20% ever apply it.” The Pareto Principle (or 80:20 rule) is…
Posted on November 24th, 2015
Sue has asked me to write a few words by way of introduction, so here goes… I joined Anatune in…
Posted on November 19th, 2015
On 9th and 10th November 2015, Anatune visited the Chromatographic Society meeting on Analytical Challenges and Solutions for Difficult Pharmaceutical…
Posted on November 13th, 2015
Quality Control and Process Monitoring is always a compromise between the number of samples you would like to test (all…
Posted on November 11th, 2015
I am pleased to introduce you to Richard Davis, who has recently joined us as a GC-MS Applications Chemist. Richard…
Posted on November 3rd, 2015
It is nice to find occasions to celebrate the great work done by some of our customers and now is…
Posted on October 30th, 2015
It determines the complexity, cost and efficiency of your sample preparation. When you design an analytical process for trace analysis,…
Posted on October 22nd, 2015
At the beginning of this month I had the pleasure of completing the final in a series of three two-day…
Posted on October 20th, 2015
One of the best things about the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) is that it offers such a large range of…
Posted on October 14th, 2015
We are looking for a partner or partners to help take this project forward. We have recently looked at the…
Posted on October 14th, 2015
Having trained the Beast in my own laboratory to carry out the tasks I wished him to perform, I set…
Posted on October 8th, 2015
To understand why, it is best to listen to analysts that are already using this powerful new technology. Together with…
Posted on October 7th, 2015
On the 15th-17th September, Anatune joined Syft Technologies and exhibited at the 36th BMSS Annual Meeting at the University of…
Posted on October 1st, 2015
Live FREE Webcast – Wednesday 7th October, 2015 at 11am EDT/ 10am CDT/ 8am PDT Hosted…
Posted on September 24th, 2015
Ultra High Pressure Liquid Chromatography is a popular and powerful analytical technique, however, if your samples contain solid particles, these…
Posted on September 10th, 2015
Following an initial chat with James Kee of Thames Water, we invited him down to our laboratory in Cambridge and…
Posted on September 8th, 2015
Syft Technologies have just announced a breakthrough in SIFT-MS technology by adding four negatively charged reagent ions to their Voice200ultra…
Posted on September 3rd, 2015
Who doesn’t like the opportunity to learn something new, or be introduced to a new technology that you were previously…
Posted on September 2nd, 2015
Agilent Technologies are holding a FREE one-day seminar on the latest developments in gas and liquid phase chromatography, mass spectrometry…
Posted on September 1st, 2015
Where GC-MS is used in metabolomics studies, sample preparation can be a major headache. Firstly there is the issue of…
Posted on August 28th, 2015
Andrew Golby has drawn our attention to this Twister (Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction) application. It is very interesting for two…
Posted on August 27th, 2015
The BMSS Annual Meeting is being held on the 15th-17th September 2015, at the University of Birmingham, and Anatune will…
Posted on August 25th, 2015
If analytical chemistry makes it into the Telegraph then it must be news. Unfortunately, you may need to be subscribed…
Posted on August 12th, 2015
“We have been totally spoiled by the LC-triple quad. There’s no messing around with sample preparation and we can throw…
Posted on August 12th, 2015
Phine Banks, Anatune’s Account Manager for the West of England, has just taken delivery of a new VW Golf. That…
Posted on August 12th, 2015
Nobuo Ochiai has written an article that illustrates great capabilities SBSE now offers for the extraction and concentration of target…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
Most analytical laboratories will have both GC-MS and LC-MS. Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry can analyse for analytes of low molecular…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
Sometimes it is the simplest of problems that can ruin your day. No GC-MS or LC-MS can handle particulate laden…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
On 14th October 2015, the Chromatographic Society and the North West Region of the Analytical Division of the RSC are…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
SIFT-MS is an important new analytical technique for the fast, real time analysis of volatile organic compounds. On Tuesday 20th…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
After a lot of interest from our blog post last month, we have decided to hold a workshop on the…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
The University of Swansea are hosting the 5th European Lipidomic Meeting, which is being held on 2nd-4th September 2015. This…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
When designing an extraction process, if your target analytes exhibit a range of polarities, this can often lead you down…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
As is the case with many other small, polar molecules, analysing for formaldehyde presents analysts with a real challenge. If…
Posted on July 31st, 2015
On Thursday 11th June, Anatune organised the first GC/Q-TOF Interest Group Meeting at Wyboston Lakes, St Neots, near Bedford. The…
Posted on June 10th, 2015
Last week saw my first anniversary of working at Anatune. During that time I have been privileged to have worked…
Posted on June 9th, 2015
Anatune is an Agilent Technologies Value-Added Reseller. If you’re not sure exactly what this means, please read on… Value-Added Resellers…
Posted on June 4th, 2015
Let’s talk about smells… Regulations concerning the emissions of actual and potential toxins from many classes of consumer products have…
Posted on May 27th, 2015
Last week was SIFT-MS workshop week and we had a full house of customers in the lab, most of whom…
Posted on May 21st, 2015
Over the past few years, concerns have grown about vitamin D deficiency in the general population. Vitamin D is known…
Posted on May 14th, 2015
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is an analysis technique that offers real-time, targeted measurement of volatile and semi-volatile…
Posted on May 13th, 2015
As High Resolution Mass Spectrometry rapidly becomes a mainstream analytical technique, is your knowledge keeping pace with the change? You…
Posted on May 13th, 2015
The high resolution, accurate GC/Q-TOF will generate a vast amount of data about the samples you run. The challenge is…
Posted on May 13th, 2015
I am the second student from the Master’s degree in Instrumentation and Analytical Chemistry of Paris-Sud University to be offered…
Posted on May 13th, 2015
Anatune recently took delivery of a Voice200Ultra SIFT-MS and for the last two weeks I have been demonstrating its capabilities,…
Posted on May 13th, 2015
Anatune is pleased to welcome Dr Mark Perkins, who will be working alongside a really great team in the Applications…
Posted on April 21st, 2015
On Thursday 11th June, we are running a GC/Q-TOF Interest Group Meeting at Wyboston Lakes, in Bedfordshire, and we hope to…
Posted on April 15th, 2015
Anatune is serious about supporting our customers well. It makes great business sense and it is also the right thing…
Posted on April 7th, 2015
Last month 20 of our customers attended our AutoPrep Workshop, and were inspired to return to their laboratories with thoughts…
Posted on March 30th, 2015
SIFT-MS is a new and rapidly growing analytical technique that offers real-time, targeted analysis of volatile organic species in air….
Posted on March 26th, 2015
Agilent Technologies are pleased to invite you to a one-day seminar on the latest developments in Organic and Inorganic Mass…
Posted on March 23rd, 2015
At GERSTEL’s International Sales Meeting in Mulheim on Wednesday 18th March, I was very proud to accept on behalf of…
Posted on March 19th, 2015
High Resolution Accurate Mass GC-MS is commonly used to identify significant, unknown compounds in all kinds of samples. This kind…
Posted on March 17th, 2015
There are two sorts of GC-MS methods: 1. The ones that just work. 2. The tough, frustrating, stressful, expensive, unreliable,…
Posted on March 12th, 2015
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is for analysts who want to make fast, real-time measurements of volatile (and…
Posted on March 11th, 2015
So what is the right way of doing this? There are many different ways of sampling volatile organic compounds in…
Posted on March 10th, 2015
For too long, SBSE has been restricted by the non-availability of more polar phases. Poly dimethyl silicone is very useful,…
Posted on March 2nd, 2015
The MPS comes to Sheffield!! Anatune will be demonstrating the GERSTEL MPS at the RSC Emerging Contaminants in Waters and…
Posted on February 26th, 2015
I recently provided a talk at the Agilent Organic Mass Spectrometry Environmental and Food Analysis Meeting, entitled ‘Automated Sample Preparation…
Posted on February 23rd, 2015
The new EG Silicone Twister is important because it expands the range of jobs that Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE)…
Posted on February 12th, 2015
Anatune is pleased to welcome Phine Banks, who will be the Account Manager for the West of the UK. Phine…
Posted on February 11th, 2015
One of the big things that we can offer our customers is ready access to the great work done in…
Posted on January 29th, 2015
The human nose can be the most sensitive detector, but the art of picking out individual odours from a…
Posted on January 27th, 2015
Agilent Technologies are pleased to invite you to a seminar focused on latest developments in Organic Mass Spectrometry in Environmental…
Posted on January 22nd, 2015
If you think about it, what could be the best place for a new graduate to start his or her…
Posted on January 20th, 2015
Manufacturing sites often generate significant amounts of waste water that has to be treated before it can be discharged into…
Posted on January 14th, 2015
On March 17th, 18th and 19th, we will be running a series of one-day workshops entitled: “On-line Sample Preparation for…
Posted on January 13th, 2015
We will shortly be launching AUTOPREP by Anatune as a brand name for a range of solutions involving sample preparation…
Posted on January 8th, 2015
Compared to older versions of our VOC Analyser, this new instrument gives improved MS performance, (including better sensitivity) and now…
Posted on January 6th, 2015
As the use of GC-MS continues to grow, more analysts come into contact with mass spectrometry for the first time….
Posted on December 11th, 2014
Some laboratories give their instruments names. I know of labs that name instruments after colours, characters from TV shows…
Posted on December 4th, 2014
If you are a GC-MS user in a routine lab, you may well need to: · Run more samples · …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Posted on December 17th, 2013
Thermal extraction is another great GC extraction technique which sits within the multi-instrumental talents of the MultiFlex sample preparation system….
Posted on December 12th, 2013
Biomarkers are important compounds in the characterisation of crude oil World-wide Biomarkers are a large class of hydrocarbons that are…
Posted on December 5th, 2013
Addition of Internal Standards When working with samples, even those needing no sample preparation, there are always some basic liquid…
Posted on November 27th, 2013
Last week, on 19th/20th and 21st/22nd November, we ran a series of MultiFlex GCqTOF Workshops hosted by the University of…
Posted on November 19th, 2013
Twister or Stir-Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE) was the final great sample preparation invention of the 20th Century. Analytical chemists throughout…
Posted on November 14th, 2013
All over the World, lots of labs are carrying out research on greenhouse gases, however, a common gripe from analysts…
Posted on November 5th, 2013
Performing Hot Injection and Trapping (HIT) Imagine that you are developing a GC-MS method and you find that you are…
Posted on October 29th, 2013
The Virtual Chemical Archive? A guest post by: Prof Ally Lewis, National Centre for Atmospheric Science and The University of…
Posted on October 25th, 2013
The idea behind Dilute and Shoot is to take advantage of sensitivity improvements to reduce the need for sample handling…
Posted on October 11th, 2013
The GERSTEL MultiFlex is a sample introduction and automation system for GC and GC-MS that is configured to offer the…
Posted on October 9th, 2013
The “Box” in this case is an analytical instrument such as a GC, GC-MS or LC-MS and the time to…
Posted on October 3rd, 2013
This excellent one-day meeting is organised every autumn jointly by the Chromatographic Society and the North West Region of the…
Posted on October 1st, 2013
The Teledyne Tekmar Automate-Q40 “When you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail” Just about…
Posted on September 18th, 2013
The GERSTEL DHS Dynamic Headspace Sampler If you are busy with the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile compounds (especially if…
Posted on September 17th, 2013
Explosives can be demanding analytes The analysis of explosives by GC can be very demanding. Explosive compounds can be very…
Posted on September 5th, 2013
For the last 20 years or so the single quadrupole GC-MS has been the main-stay of very many analytical laboratories….
Posted on August 22nd, 2013
Solid Phase Extraction Cartridges Many labs struggle to get Solid Phase Extraction to give decent results. When using LLE, analysts…
Posted on August 20th, 2013
Our good friend and long-standing customer, Dr Darren Caven-Quantrill of Frutarom in Wellingborough has drawn our attention to a useful book…
Posted on August 8th, 2013
The analysis of unknowns by accurate mass GC and LC-MS is a hot topic right now; so in the week beginning…
Posted on July 26th, 2013
Using Analytical Science to Create Food that is Delicious and Healthy In the analysis of consumer products (especially food and…
Posted on July 11th, 2013
In an earlier post by Paul Roberts on the analysis of unknown analytes by GC-MS, Paul touched upon a point concerning…
Posted on July 4th, 2013
The AutoMate-Q40 prepares food samples for residue analysis There was a time when every laboratory analysing for pesticide residues…
Posted on July 3rd, 2013
One of Anatune’s outstanding successes of the last few years has been our fully-automated LC-MS/MS solution for the analysis of…
Posted on June 25th, 2013
Over the last few years, GERSTEL’s sampling and automation technology has steadily grown to be the first-choice for chromatography sample preparation and introduction within…
Posted on June 19th, 2013
We have 15 copies of the “Solid Phase Microextraction CD” available to give away!! The CD includes over 1000 references to…
Posted on June 12th, 2013
Agilent 7200 GC/q-TOF and GERSTEL Multi-Purpose Sampler How do you analyse for something when you don’t know what it…
Posted on June 4th, 2013
Automated sample preparation works around the clock It is common for labs to run LC/MS around the clock, but in clinical…
Posted on June 4th, 2013
I am pleased to report that we have just formed a joint innovation partnership with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) at Stevenage, to investigate ways in…
Posted on May 22nd, 2013
Silvia Kanzler of GERSTEL has just alerted me to this article in “The Column” by Armin Hauk of Intertek Expert…
Posted on May 22nd, 2013
There are several compounds that are currently in the spotlight as potential and actual targets for routine monitoring in potable…
Posted on May 21st, 2013
When I write a post with a book give-away, I always get a big response, so we keep our eyes open and grab any spare copies of interesting publications that…
Posted on May 16th, 2013
Hot Injection and Trapping If you are investing in an expensive high-performance GC/MS, it makes no sense to economise…
Posted on May 15th, 2013
At last month’s Focus Exhibition in York, it turned out to be a busy and successful event for Friiscan and we received 128…
Posted on May 2nd, 2013
The determination of the fatty acid composition of fats and oils in foods involves three stages: The extraction of the…
Posted on May 1st, 2013
For years, targeted analysis has been very much in vogue. Someone gives you a list of compounds to look for…
Posted on April 30th, 2013
I have managed to obtain a few spare copies of this rather useful hand-book that I am happy to give away…
Posted on April 26th, 2013
Focus* 2013 was a great success with over a hundred people expressing interest in our Pay-Per-Sample LC-MS/MS offering, and we…
Posted on April 11th, 2013
If you would like to get your hands on a new LC/MS – but don’t have the capital; then pay…
Posted on March 30th, 2013
Maybe you have something you would love to try-out on a GC-triple quad – if only you could get your hands…
Posted on March 28th, 2013
The practicalities of working with “dirty” sample matrices by GC-MS involve dealing with two related problems: How to resolve analytes from matrix…
Posted on March 28th, 2013
In GC-MS, when working with complex matrices, the ability to be able to separate analytes from involatile material upon injection…
Posted on March 28th, 2013
For many customers, the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) is the autosampler of choice because it gives them access to the widest range of…
Posted on March 27th, 2013
Whole air sampling using inert canisters offers significant advantages over sampling with tubes, and labs are beginning to embrace this…
Posted on March 27th, 2013
Plant and vegetable oils form an important component of our diet, and are also of great industrial importance as a…
Posted on March 27th, 2013
For labs that are involved in analysing for residues in food, a heavyweight automation solution has emerged with the potential to not…
Posted on March 26th, 2013
The agenda for our twin conferences “Automation in the Chromatography Laboratory” is now complete and I am sure that this is the best…
Posted on March 12th, 2013
During a recent MultiPurpose Sampler workshop, a customer asked if they could use the GERSTEL MPS to automate Single Drop Micro Extraction*. After…
Posted on March 12th, 2013
IsoTube MPS Solution Field collection of natural gas samples at wells or drilling sites combined with analysis by GC-FID/TCD and GC-IRMS…
Posted on March 8th, 2013
We now have a GC-triple quad in our application laboratory We recently reported that we had taken delivery of an…
Posted on March 6th, 2013
There are plenty of good reasons for working to reduce your labs solvent consumption. Solvents are expensive to buy (and dispose of),…
Posted on February 27th, 2013
Recently a Consultant Clinical Scientist mentioned to us that their Trust had a well defined process for saving costs, but no…
Posted on February 26th, 2013
Places on our three GERSTEL MPS Training Workshops were all snapped up in record time and so we are adding…
Posted on February 19th, 2013
Anatune will be attending various meetings/exhibitions throughout the year and we would love to see you there. So far, we…
Posted on February 13th, 2013
Dual-head GERSTEL Multi-Purpose Sampler Here is a link to a video of a Dual Headed GERSTEL MPS. If you are running…
Posted on February 1st, 2013
Anatune is seventeen years old today Anatune began trading on the 1st of February 1996 and so today is Anatune’s…
Posted on January 30th, 2013
It has taken a while, but we now have an Agilent 7890-7000 GC-triple quad installed and running in our application…
Posted on January 15th, 2013
Until the end of April 2013, we have a great promotional offer on CombiPal-to-MPS upgrades. This offer enables CombiPal users to…
Posted on December 14th, 2012
Andrew Golby writes: Firstly, thanks to those of you that wished me well when I departed. I have now returned to work…
Posted on December 7th, 2012
N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) (AKA dimethylnitrosamine or DMN) is highly toxic, and a suspected human carcinogen, as such the US EPA sets a…
Posted on November 29th, 2012
SPME Multi-Fibre Exchange – One of the Workshop Topics Last week we ran a series of Workshops on advanced SPME,…
Posted on November 28th, 2012
I am sad to report that after four years with Anatune, Andrew Golby is departing to take up fresh challenges….
Posted on November 15th, 2012
If you manage an analytical laboratory and use GC-MS and LC-MS, the chances are that sample preparation will form the bulk…
Posted on November 7th, 2012
The XSD has no radioactive source – unlike the ECD If you own and use electron capture detectors, you…
Posted on October 23rd, 2012
If you are involved in the analysis of any consumer products (foods, beverages, personal care products and the like), you…
Posted on October 18th, 2012
Ray has been growing chilli peppers on the window sills in the Anatune office since we moved to our new site…
Posted on October 17th, 2012
More information concerning the Teledyne Tekmar’s new AutoMate-Q40 sample prep workbench is becoming available and I can now provide some…
Posted on October 3rd, 2012
On the 30th of September, at the AOAC meeting in Las Vegas, Teledyne Tekmar launched a brand new chromatography sample…
Posted on October 2nd, 2012
Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction has a number of unique and highly desirable characteristics: It is simple to use. It can…
Posted on August 24th, 2012
We are busy developing a simple, high-reliability, Solid Phase Extraction system, based upon the GERSTEL MPS platform, primarily (but not…
Posted on August 15th, 2012
OI Analytical Pulsed Flame Photometric Detector The OI Analytical Pulsed Flame Photometric Detector (PFPD) is generally acknowledged to…
Posted on August 7th, 2012
Dan, David and Jeff in the Paris sunshine Opportunities to spend a day in the company of a World-renowned expert…
Posted on July 20th, 2012
Following on from my earlier post concerning the better ways of working with high matrix samples, I came upon an article on…
Posted on July 12th, 2012
I am pleased to say that this week we launch the GERSTEL mVap for sale in the UK. mVap is an accessory…
Posted on July 10th, 2012
Here is our outline schedule of chromatography sample preparation workshops for the next 12 months. These one-day workshops are hosted in our Cambridge laboratory…
Posted on May 15th, 2012
Agilent GC-QQQ With ALEX for Automated Liner Exchange The current generation of GC-triple quadrupole mass spectrometers, provides a great…
Posted on May 14th, 2012
Last week, the Association of Clinical Biochemists (ACB) held an event in Liverpool called FOCUS, which is their annual conference and exhibition….
Posted on May 9th, 2012
Over the last few months, Fully Evaporative Dynamic Headspace Sampling (DHS (FET)) has been gaining the attention of many people. DHS (FET)…
Posted on March 27th, 2012
Meet to exchange experience and ideas with analytical scientists who are making automated sample preparation work for them. Find out…
Posted on March 27th, 2012
Last week, we organised a couple of “Technology Days” so that we could show customers some of our newest offerings…
Posted on March 19th, 2012
Mount F Written by Paul Roberts, Anatune’s Application Laboratory Manager. I recently visited GERSTEL KK in Tokyo to learn about…
Posted on March 7th, 2012
My previous post distinguished itself by generating by far the biggest response of any blog post I have yet written. Evidently,…
Posted on February 23rd, 2012
Of late, we have had a steady stream of people asking us how to get more sensitivity from headspace sampling. In most…
Posted on February 22nd, 2012
We are moving to our new building in Cambridge over the weekend of 3rd/4th March. You can find our new address,…
Posted on February 17th, 2012
June 12 & 13th 2012, Down Hall near London Stansted Airport. The conference programme for our this popular event is now virually complete….
Posted on February 6th, 2012
Flavor, Fragrance & Odor Analysis edited by Ray Marsili Ray Marsili, head of the Marsili Consulting Group has compiled and…
Posted on February 2nd, 2012
Taste and odour – vital to product quality We are holding a series of one-day workshops introducing the GERSTEL 1D/2D…
Posted on January 26th, 2012
Down Hall Country House Hotel This conference will be held on 12th & 13th June 2012 at the beautiful Down…
Posted on January 23rd, 2012
Last week, we made a excellent progress on this project and Dan Carrier now has the unpainted prototype instrument up and running in…
Posted on January 22nd, 2012
We were discussing sample derivatisation this week and Andrew Golby summed up his experience (and that of many other analysts) as follows:…
Posted on January 18th, 2012
Project Update A few months ago I issued an invitation for, anyone with an interest, to be involved in a new…
Posted on January 13th, 2012
Wow! How did we miss this one? Dr. Katja Dettmer of the University of Regensburg, Institute of Functional Genomics wrote…
Posted on January 11th, 2012
How many times have you been asked that question? Assuming the “what” is a small organic molecule, then GC-MS is…
Posted on December 11th, 2011
Not a lot of people know this… Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE) is a very handy way of preparing samples for analysis…
Posted on November 30th, 2011
Down Hall – the Venue for “Automation in the Chromatography Laboratory” We have begun preparations for the 5th Anatune conference on chromatography automation….
Posted on November 24th, 2011
Selective detectors have an important part to play in a wide range of analytical tasks. There are several important points to take…
Posted on November 13th, 2011
If so perhaps you would be interested in a current project we are working on. We aim to automate the laboratory analysis…
Posted on November 2nd, 2011
On Wednesday the 9th November 2011, there is a one day meeting; “Advances in GC Technology” at LGC, Runcorn, Cheshire,…
Posted on October 19th, 2011
Classical Static Headspace analysis works by analysing the vapour above the sample at equilibrium. Doing this gives good quantitative data…
Posted on October 9th, 2011
Food and beverages usually contain plenty of non-volatile material (sugars, salt, proteins etc.), so pre-treatment of the sample is essential…
Posted on October 5th, 2011
Nice to see the BBC doing its bit to promote analytical science! “If people are concerned about their vitamin D…
Posted on July 21st, 2011
Many analysts find that their workload consists of a mixture of the routine and the unpredictable. A GC-MS is a…
Posted on July 6th, 2011
It has happened again. A lab that needed a GERSTEL MPS has been talked into buying a CombiPal and discovered…
Posted on July 6th, 2011
Automated extraction and injection from 2ml and 20ml vials has always been possible using the GERSTEL Multi Purpose Sampler, however…
Posted on June 23rd, 2011
I have to say, in my opinion, this one day seminar, run by RSSL was excellent. I would guess that…
Posted on June 15th, 2011
I have been asked by Kathy Ridgeway of RSSL to give a presentation at a seminar she is running in…
Posted on May 27th, 2011
LC-tandem MS MS is rapidly becoming a very important tool for clinical analysis. While this is undoubtedly a good thing…
Posted on May 2nd, 2011
Norman Roberts of Liverpool University Hospital asked me the following question concerning the use of Disposible Pipette Extraction for the…
Posted on April 8th, 2011
Chromatography Sample Prep & Automation: Andreas Hoffmann on an alternative to Simultaneous Distillation and Extraction. GERSTEL USA has something to…
Posted on April 4th, 2011
A few weeks ago, at Pittcon 2011 in Atlanta, I bumped into David Benanou of Veolia Water. David informed me…
Posted on April 2nd, 2011
Paul Roberts has completed an application note describing a fully automated method for the analysis of urinary free cortisol. Cortisol…
Posted on March 25th, 2011
The measurement of urinary free cortisol is used in the investigation of possible Cushing’s syndrome. Cortisol is a steroid-hormone synthesized…
Posted on March 24th, 2011
The main goal of our LC-MS lab currently is to produce a suite of applications that will help clinical laboratories…
Posted on February 15th, 2011
Paul Roberts, our LC-MS Applications Chemist, has been busy adding to our portfolio of clinical laboratory applications. Having successfully completed…
Posted on February 5th, 2011
I have just had the privilage of spending a few days with Bob Collins and his team at GERSTEL USA’s…
Posted on December 17th, 2010
I Just thought I’d share with you my recent experience with the Teledyne Tekmar ATOMX. The Purge and Trap market…
Posted on July 16th, 2010
Earlier I mentioned that we had developed a new Robotic Centrifuge which we had used in the development of our…
Posted on July 2nd, 2010
As technical director at Anatune my remit is to keep a watchful eye on the needs and wants of analytical…
Posted on July 2nd, 2010
I was recently at the European Pesticide Residues Workshop, held this year in Strasbourg. I was invited along by Gerstel…
Posted on July 1st, 2010
If you are an environmental analyst workin with GC-MS, sample preparation by solid phase extraction is an attractive alternative to…
Posted on June 25th, 2010
I’ve been working on the extraction of PAHs from soils again this week. We have a fairly crude method whereby…
Posted on June 21st, 2010
The GERSTEL MPS PrepStation isn’t just our most important product, it is also a vital tool for our own laboratory…
Posted on June 18th, 2010
So I’ve been working on the Vitamin D methodology this week, we are almost ready to start demoing the system…
Posted on June 10th, 2010
…So Agilent were here at the end of last week and the beginning of this one, fitting the turbo pump…
Posted on May 27th, 2010
So this is my first Anatune blog entry and actually my first ever blog entry too, nothing like being thrown…