Community Corner, October 2009

Community Corner, October 2009

This section is devoted to our customers: for sharing customer experiences and feedback, up-coming changes in products, upcoming surveys, etc. This is also our Chromatography Quiz section, where each issue will contain a new chromatogram and a question associated with it. Each winner will receive a prize, and will be listed in the next issue.
We encourage all of our customers to submit stories, feedback, experiences, and we’ll pick one or two to share with the community.

Upcoming Events

Customer Satisfaction Survey – keep an eye out for a survey coming by email in late November. It will be a short questionnaire designed to gauge our customer satisfaction and how we can improve.

Chromatography Quiz
Chromatography Quiz No. 1: Carbamate Analysis for US EPA 531.1

Special Note: This is the first Quiz included with our newsletter. For each issue, we’ll choose a chromatogram from a different application or industry. So if Carbamates don’t apply to your lab this round, stay tuned! The quizzes and newsletter will be published Quarterly

To Win:

Simply email your answer and your full contact information by December 1st to: Rebecca at Send email to Rebecca Smith

The troubleshooting answer and winner congratulations will be published in the next issue.

Identify the error made when running the Carbamate chromatogram below and win a prize!

Pickering Standard: 1700-0063 Carbamate Test Mix, 2.5 µg/mL, inject 10 µL

Pickering Column: 1846150 Carbamate Column, C18, 4.6 x 150 mm

Normal Operating Conditions (for reference only, condition changes may be reflected in chromatogram):

Column Temperature: 42 °CFlow rate: 1 mL/min
Eluent Gradient:

TIME…….WATER……MeOH %
0……………..85………….15
0.5…………..85………….15
28.5…………30………….70
28.6…………..0………….100
33.5…………..0………….100
33.6………….85…………15
41……………..85…………15

Post-column conditions for pesticide analysis:
Reagent 1: Hydrolysis reagent CB130
Reagent 2: 100 mg of OPA, 2 g Thiofluor™ in 950 mL of CB910
Reactor 1: 100 °C, 0.5 mL
Reactor 2: ambient. 0.1 mL
Reagent flow rates: 0.3 mL/minDetection: Fluorometer ex 330 nm, em 465 nm

Post-column conditions for pesticide analysis