Thermo’s New Environmental and Food Safety Productivity Solutions Enable Quick and Cost-Effective GC/MS Method Compliance

Thermo Electron Corporation, world leader in analytical instrumentation announces new Environmental and Food Safety Productivity Solutions designed to accelerate traditional method validation processes.

These productivity kits include stocks of relevant pre-diluted standards and other quality control requirements, and can be customized to offer the necessary tools for specific regulated and non-regulated methods guaranteeing full compliance. Developed for use with Thermo’s DSQ™ II single quadrupole GC/MS, these new tools provide immediate productivity gains.

Designed to address the needs of scientists analyzing compounds in GC/MS in routine environmental and food safety environments, the productivity kits help users achieve complete instrument and method validation within only a few days rather than weeks with remarkable cost savings of 90% compared to traditional techniques. They enable laboratories to easily adopt the latest in technology, quickly train new employees, and rapidly document new instrumentation.

Thermo’s novel GC/MS Productivity Solutions offer a wide range of innovative method development and validation tools including:

• Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for specific methods
• How-to Guide enabling quick method setup
• Quick Start Guide to provide a visual outline of the instrument and method set-up
• All associated methods including instrument and processing parameters
• EnviroLab™ Forms 2.0 Software ensures that acquired data can be easily reviewed and interfaced to a laboratory information management system (LIMS)
• Consumables for food safety and environmental applications

When purchasing a new GC/MS system, operators in routine laboratories often need to go through a complicated and time-consuming method development process. Thermo’s Productivity Solutions significantly reduce the amount of time required for method development and validation, making transition from an old GC/MS system to a new one as seamless as possible.

Thermo’s DSQ II single quadrupole GC/MS employs next-generation curved optics to eliminate performance-robbing neutral noise, thus improving detection, quantitation and spectral performance. The DSQ II is equipped with Thermo’s new DuraBrite™ source to offer enhanced robustness and sensitivity while also increasing productivity.