Friday, January 14, 2011

Dioxin scare in European chickens

As news of the contamination of chickens in Europe by Dioxins reaches the US – UCT, who is world renowned for food contamination testing, is ready to help supply laboratories at every level through our experienced team of distributors. World class scientific and technical support is aslo available from expert scientists at UCT headquarters in the United States to help with methods, applications and materials for Dioxin Analysis and Testing.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Poster from SOFT using CSDAU on a wide range of drugs

Presented at last year’s SOFT meeting (Richmond, VA) was a poster: Reduce Your Backlog: Adopt a Single Solid Phase Extraction Approach to Detect and Quantify Basic, Acidic/Neutral, Sympathomometic Amines, and Cocaine/Metabolites using Mini-Bore Fast GC/MS by Daniel D Baker IV, Franklin County Coroners Laboratory Ohio, that demonstrates the power and versatility of UCT's world renowned CSDAU SPE column. Daniel showed that this sorbent is a valuable tool in maximizing efficiency and productivity in Coroners and Medical Examiner’s laboratories. In extracting a wide and diverse range of drugs (including 12 amphetamine type, 68 basic and 12 weak acid neutrals) from post mortem blood (1 mL), Daniel demonstrated how 1 single column can reduce difficulties encountered worldwide by Forensic Toxicologists involved in this area of analysis.