Thermo Fisher Scientific’s New Validated Analytical Workflow for Pesticide Analysis
The Thermo Scientific Pesticide Explorer is a new and exciting analytical method to quantify pesticides in complex sample matrices. This new workflow will help ensure global regulatory requirements are adhered to in food testing laboratories.
This workflow uses HPLC/MS capabilities along with newly optimized workflow procedures to increase productivity when analyzing multi-class pesticides. Thermo Fisher Scientific will be exhibiting this new workflow at the 2019 Annual Meeting and Exposition of Official Agricultural Chemists September 6-12 in Denver Colorado (Booth #409).
Laboratory manager, Alessandro Cavaglioni, ISVEA, said, "As a leader in providing analytical services to the agri-food sector, and a specialist in the analysis and verification of wine, we are always seeking ways to enhance the productivity and reproducibility of every analysis we run. The implementation of the Pesticide Explorer workflow, along with access to Thermo Fisher’s expert support, has enabled our team to conduct highly-repeatable pesticide testing, delivering a regulatory-compliant service to each of our clients."
"Pesticides are used to protect the world’s crops, but their presence beyond pre-defined safety limits also poses health risks to consumers and must be closely monitored by food testing laboratories," said Dipankar Ghosh, director, marketing, food and beverage, chromatography and mass spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific. "The Pesticide Explorer validated workflow is designed to detect multi-class pesticides in line with European Union (EU) SANTE guidelines, helping to increase productivity for food testing laboratories and safeguard consumers and the global food chain."