Korean NAQS to Utilize High-Performance Bruker Triple-Quadrupole GC-MS Systems for Advanced Pesticide Analysis
16 August 2011 - 9:26PM
Business Wire
At the combined 2nd Asian & Oceanic Mass Spectrometry
Conference (AOMSC) and the 8th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society
for Mass Spectrometry (KSMS) in Busan, Korea, Bruker today
announced that the Korean National Agricultural Products Quality
Management Service (NAQS) has ordered 6 Bruker triple-quadrupole
GC-MS systems for pesticide residue analysis and general monitoring
of agricultural products.
The New High-Performance SCION TQ GC-MS
(Photo: Business Wire)
With an Experimental Research Institute in Seoul and multiple
branch offices throughout South Korea, NAQS has selected Bruker to
install the triple-quadrupole GC-MS systems in each of its local
laboratories for detection and monitoring of more than 220
pesticide residues in agricultural products. NAQS aims to develop
enhanced food testing analytical approaches for Korean agriculture
through the collection of informative statistical data for
agricultural business, policy making and academic research. To do
so most effectively, NAQS is currently upgrading its portfolio of
analytical instrumentation and certification protocols to ensure
that highest quality standards can be applied.
Accurate and reliable screening for the presence of pesticides
in food is a major analytical challenge. The increasing number of
pesticides poses special analytical challenges with several hundred
different pesticides requiring identification and quantitation.
Bruker has pioneered high-performance triple-quadrupole GC-MS
systems for lower detection limits, higher specificity and greater
reliability in gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) food
analysis. Recently, Bruker introduced the new SCION
triple-quadrupole GC-MS as the new performance leader to accelerate
the adoption of easy-to-use, affordable and robust
triple-quadrupole technology as the new analytical gold standard
for GC-MS. At KSMS/AOMSC in Busan, the novel SCION
technology will be presented to the Korean and Asia Pacific
scientific communities.
“Supporting the global food testing market with the most
advanced analytical instruments is a major objective for Bruker,”
said Collin D’Silva, President of Bruker’s Chemical & Applied
Markets (CAM) division. “The decision by NAQS to utilize Bruker
triple-quadrupole GC-MS systems will significantly enhance their
analytical capabilities and help make a difference in ensuring a
safe food supply.”
For more information and accelerated knowledge-sharing in the
global food testing community, please visit
www.globalfoodtesting.com
For more information on GC, GC-MS and GC-MS/MS systems from
Bruker, please visit: www.bdal.com/products/gc-ms
About Bruker Corporation
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) is a leading provider of
high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular
and materials research, as well as for industrial, clinical and
applied analysis. For more information, please visit
www.bruker.com.
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