Modernizing Dioxin Analysis for Food Control: Introducing a New GC Orbitrap

Ready to modernize your dioxin analysis? Join this webinar to learn about the Orbitrap Exploris™ GC S mass spectrometer and its application in dioxin analysis for food control laboratories. The session will outline how high-resolution GC-MS with Orbitrap technology can deliver the analytical performance required for regulatory compliance. It will also consider how such approaches support the analysis of dioxins and other persistent organic pollutants in routine workflows. The presenters - Dr Kerstin Krätschmer   (Wageningen Food Safety Research) and Dominic Roberts (Thermo Fisher Scientific), will present application data, review analytical performance against regulatory criteria, and discuss current challenges in dioxin analysis, including considerations when evaluating alternatives to traditional magnetic sector GC-HRMS systems.

Learning points

• Learn about the new Orbitrap Exploris GC S released at ASMS 2026.
• See how high-resolution GC-MS meets dioxin regulatory requirements and expands analytical capability.
• Learn how to modernize workflows for simpler, future-ready dioxin & POPs analysis.

Who should attend?

• Laboratory managers, supervisors, and analysts working in food safety and environmental labs.
• Analysts performing dioxin and POPs analysis interested in learning about latest technology and application approach.

Presenter: Dr Kerstin Krätschmer (Head of the Dutch National Reference Laboratory for POPs, Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR))

Kerstin has a PhD in food chemistry and is currently head of the Dutch NRL POPs situated at Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) in Wageningen, the Netherlands. She earned her PhD at the European Union Reference Laboratory for halogenated POPs in Freiburg, Germany, exploring polychlorinated alkanes analysis using GC-Orbitrap-HRAM. Within her current work as researcher in the contaminants team at WFSR, she covers a wide range of topics from PCDD/Fs to radioactivity in food, looking into new detection methods, fate in the circular food system, emerging risks and crisis preparedness.

Presenter: Dominic Roberts (Product Marketing Manager, GC Orbitrap MS, Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Dominic Roberts has been closely involved with the Thermo Scientific GC Orbitrap MS since its launch in 2015. He started at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Senior Applications Specialist for the product and is currently the GC Orbitrap MS Product Marketing Manager. Dominic is an experienced analytical chemist and mass spectrometrist with more than 25 years of experience using state-of-the-art analytical systems. He has worked in both a regulatory and industrial environment with GC–MS and LC–MS systems to investigate a variety of chemicals in food, biological, and environmental samples.