Hydrogen Carrier Gas: Pesticides Analysis In Food Matrices

Concerns about trace-level chemical pollutants in food have been driving the demand for more rapid and reliable methods for the identification and quantitation of chemical residues. The more common challenges of routine pesticide analysis include the need to test pesticide residues in foods against a growing list of target compounds, meet stringent regulations resulting in lower detection limits, and operate methods in increasingly complex sample matrices.

More recently, helium supply has emerged as an additional challenge and has prompted many laboratories to evaluate the use of alternative carrier gases such as hydrogen. This presents some advantages, however, the conversion of an instrumental method from helium to hydrogen requires some precautions to give similar performances.

In this webinar we will discuss the analysis of pesticides in food matrices with the GC/MS/MS technique and the new Hydrolnert source, using hydrogen carrier gas.

Presenter: Roberta Ciruolo (Instrumental Technician, BiochemieLab)

Roberta graduated in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Florence.

Upon joining BiochemieLab, she maintained her previous skills in the residual sector and implementing them with the LC/MS/MS technique on Agilent Technologies instruments for the analysis of both plant protection products and mycotoxins and veterinary drugs.

Presenter: Marica Beggio (Product Specialist GC and GC/MS, Agilent Technologies)

Marica graduated at Padua’s University obtaining a degree in Food Science and Technology.

After joining Agilent Technologies Italia in 2018 as a Product Specialist for Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry, she has gained technical and application experience in GC and GC/MS hardware and software platforms, participating in the market introduction of new products and technologies.