Cut through the uncertainty: the benefits of Orbitrap GC-MS for the analysis of pesticides and environmental contaminants in food matrices

The presentation will first discuss the challenges in the quantitative analysis of pesticides, PBDEs, PCNs and PCBs. The presentation will then demonstrate, with examples, how the high selectivity of the GC-Orbitrap can also complement GC-triple quadrupole MS/MS by overcoming issues encountered with analyte sensitivity, identification and confirmation.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how GC-Orbitrap MS can improve selectivity and increase confidence in the quantitation and identification of pesticide residues and contaminants in food and environmental samples.
• Learn how the ease of use of GC-Orbitrap can simplify analytical methods.
• Discover how to improve your results for the targeted quantitative analysis of pesticides in food.

Presenter: Nuria Cortés-Francisco (Job Title Emerging Contaminants and Mass Spectrometry Specialist, Company Laboratori de l'Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona)

Dr. Nuria Cortés-Francisco received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Barcelona. She developed her career at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, where she mainly worked on the use and study of high-resolution mass spectrometry for the analysis of organic pollutants in environmental and food samples. Since 2014, she has been the Emerging Contaminants and Mass Spectrometry Specialist at the Laboratori de l'Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona.