Food & Enviro
Spice Up Your Life with MS: Workflows for High Throughput Pesticide Analysis by MS/MS in Challenging Matrices such as Spices and Tobacco by Kaushik Banerjee

Food Analysis
Analysis Methods for Residual Pesticides in Food
Separation Science, in collaboration with Shimadzu, offers a series of application notes demonstrating how the use of LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS, often with a modified QuEChERS method, can be used to...Read more
Become a Digital Wine Connoisseur — Aroma Characterization using GCMS
Professor Erich Leitner from Graz Univeristy of Technology in Austria will share his knowledge of wine profiling and how GC/GCMS as analytical tool can help identify the origin of different wines in...Read more
Food metabolomics for the evaluation of Japanese rice wines using LC-MS/MS
In this study, various types of malted rice sake, made from the same manufacturer are analysed for a total of 97 hydrophilic metabolites (e.g. amino acids and organic acids). Read more
Enviro Analysis
Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Chemicals of Environmental Concern
Separation Science, in collaboration with Shimadzu, offers a series of application notes introducing analysis methods for substances of concern such as PFAS, microplastics, and metallic elements....Read more
Analysis of PFAS in the Environment
Around the world, communities are discovering that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are commonly found in drinking water and the environment. These chemicals are persistent, toxic and...Read more
High-sensitivity method for the analysis of nonylphenol in river water using GC-MS/MS
In this application note, a method using a high selectivity triple quadrupole gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC–MS/MS) to detect for nonylphenol in river water is presented. Read more
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Pharma & Bioclinical

Assuring Laboratory Data Integrity in a Time of Enhanced Regulatory Oversight
by David Stokes

Pharma Analysis
Solutions for Medicinal Chemistry
Separation Science, in collaboration with Shimadzu, offers a series of application notes covering everything from a high efficiency workflow for simple fractionation, examples of preparative...Read more
[eBook] Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical solutions
This eBook contains a selection of application notes relevant for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical analysis using HPLC / (U)HPLC or LC-MS/MS. Read more
Latest Solutions for Nitrosamine Analysis
Separation Science, in collaboration with Shimadzu, offers a series of application notes describing the quantitation of various nitrosamines in drugs and solvents using its LC/MS or GC/MS...Read more
Bioclinical Analysis
Solutions for Oligonucleotide Drug Analysis
Separation Science, in collaboration with Shimadzu, offers a series of application notes providing solutions for oligonucleotide drug analysis. Click on the button below to download your personal...Read more
Solutions for LC/MS Bioanalysis of Antibody Drugs
Separation Science, in collaboration with Shimadzu, offers a series of application notes providing solutions for LC/MS bioanalysis of antibody drugs. Click on the buttons below to download your...Read more
Clinomics Centre launched by Shimadzu and Singapore’s Changi General Hospital
The Shimadzu-CGH Clinomics Centre (SC3), a public-private partnership by Singapore’s Changi General Hospital (CGH) and Shimadzu (Asia Pacific), to conduct mass spectrometry-based clinical testing...Read more
Shimadzu Solutions

GC-MS to GC-MS-MS for Chemical Residue Analysis
by Nicholas Snow

Liquid Chromatography
Fix LC-MS problems with Shimadzu's downloadable troubleshooting guide
LC-MS systems are complex and sensitive instruments, and even minor issues can lead to inaccurate results or instrument downtime, resulting in financial losses and delayed research. Read more
Applying Single Quad LC-MS to a Variety of Pharmaceutical and Food & Beverage Analyses
LC-MS is one of the most widely used analytical techniques due to its ability to provide sensitive, selective, and specific data for both qualitative and quantitative analysis. This eBook, produced...Read more
Advanced LC systems that even support remote working
Shimadzu has announced the release of its “Advanced i-Series” liquid chromatographs meeting user demands for analysing a large number of samples or quickly re-processing data even when working from...Read more
Gas Chromatography
Get your GC-MS troubleshooting guide now!
Using a troubleshooting guide to address GC-MS problems offers numerous benefits to analysts and researchers. Read more
Determine potential cosmetic allergens by comprehensive GCxGC
This application note provides detailed GCxGC analytical conditions and columns for the effective separation and quantitation of 59 cosmetic allergens in cosmetics and personal care products. Read more
Innovative solution for sulfur detection providing high sensitivity and stability
Shimadzu has released the Nexis SCD-2030 sulfur chemiluminescence detection system consisting of a Nexis GC-2030 high-performance GC and the newly developed SCD-2030 sulfur chemiluminescence...Read more
Mass Spectrometry
Introducing a multi-user high-performance MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer
Shimadzu’s MALDI-8020 is the newcomer in their family of MALDI products. This linear MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer combines talents and skills such as outstanding speed, accuracy and...Read more
In this study, Shimadzu's TD-30 thermal desorption system is used to address the issues of carryover when analyzing samples with highly concentrated SVOC content from automotive interior...Read more
How to perform off-flavor analysis in chemical material using a thermal desorption method
In this study, Shimadzu produces a simple solution for off-flavor analysis using a thermal desorption method that assumes no prior knowledge. Read more
