Complex matrices, expanding contaminant lists, and pressure for faster results challenge routine testing workflows. Laboratories need methods that recover trace-level targets, control interference, and deliver reliable data across diverse sample types.
This eBook brings together expert perspectives and technology overviews to help laboratories address those demands. Explore where conventional QuEChERS methods fall short, how broader residue workflows can extend analytical coverage, and what emerging chemical and microbiological methods offer testing laboratories.
Download to discover practical approaches to sample preparation, method development, and faster screening that support product safety and environmental monitoring.
What You’ll Learn
- Strengthen pesticide residue methods: Adapt extraction, cleanup, and chromatography for polar metabolites and complex food matrices while protecting instrument performance.
- Expand residue coverage: Explore Steven a "QECh*All" approach to consolidating pesticides, veterinary drugs, and other contaminants within a broader workflow.
- Evaluate PFAS testing strategies: Consider targeted mass spectrometry, broader fluorine measurements, and non-targeted analysis in the context of evolving regulatory priorities.
- Tackle wastewater complexity: Examine matrix interference, overlooked polar contaminants, and the analytical challenges of tracking PFAS transformation products.
- Broaden microbial monitoring: Discover how metagenomics and rapid microbiological methods can inform contamination tracking and bioprocessing monitoring.
- Assess emerging pathogen detection tools: Compare digital PCR, LAMP, microfluidic qPCR, and CRISPR-based assays, with attention to sample preparation and workflow fit.
Use these insights to evaluate new methods, identify gaps in existing workflows, and strengthen chemical and microbiological testing.