Consumer Goods Personal Care Product Testing

SIFT-MS provides rapid, sensitive, and selective analysis of benzene and other contaminants in a wide array of commercial products.  Integration with a headspace autosampler enables rapid screening of hundreds of samples per day.

Sensitive, high-throughput detection of personal care product contaminants

SIFT-MS offers faster, more sensitive detection of contaminants in commercial personal care products than traditional methods.  Matrix effects due to the complex and variable compositions of the personal care products are effectively addressed through utilization of standard additions in a matrix-matching approach. The high sample throughput of SIFT-MS means that calibration curves for each matrix are generated rapidly compared to gas chromatography-based analyses, making the standard additions approach far more economic when using SIFT-MS with faster time to first result.  SIFT-MS has also been shown to detect carcinogens like benzene with 10-50X greater sensitivity than GC methods because of its ability to directly sample the products.

Real-time and high-throughput analysis option

High sensitivity and wide linearity range

Designed and engineered for demanding laboratory, R&D, and process-line applications

Automated headspace analysis

Intuitive software and flexible testing of multiple products

Comprehensive analysis, including inorganics and chromatographically challenging compounds

Personal Care Product Testing resources

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Direct MS Simplifies Analysis of Challenging Compounds

Routine Analysis 4: Direct MS Simplifies Analysis of Challenging Compounds

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SIFT-MS Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry

Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry Technology Overview

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Volatile Compound Analysis: Automated SIFT-MS

Conventional laboratory volatile compound analysis typically utilizes chromatography-based techniques, which are slow and frequently require extensive sample preparation.
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Routine Analysis 2: Routine Lab Procedures Are Easy to Apply to Direct MS

In this webcast (the second of a four-part series) we answer the frequently asked question: How can I adopt direct mass spectrometry in my routine analysis workflow?
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The SIFT-MS Automation Series: Episode 6 SIFT-MS Automation Past, Present and Future

Dr Perkins takes us through the attributes that make automated SIFT-MS an excellent tool for routine and R&D laboratories.

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The SIFT-MS Automation Series: Episode 5 Continuous Headspace Analysis… and Beyond and R&D laboratories.

Dr Perkins takes us through the attributes that make automated SIFT-MS an excellent tool for routine and R&D laboratories.

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The SIFT-MS Automation Series: Episode 4 Calibration Approaches for Automated SIFT-MS

In this webinar, we continue our six-episode series on automation of SIFT-MS. Join our series presenter, Dr Mark Perkins, a global authority in automated SIFT-MS. In this fourth episode, Dr Perkins describes how simply and rapidly traditional instrument calibration is achieved with the automated SIFT-MS configuration.
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The SIFT-MS Automation Series, Episode 3: Advanced Headspace Methods with SIFT-MS

In this webinar, we continue our six-episode series on automation of SIFT-MS. Join our series presenter, Dr Mark Perkins, a global authority in automated SIFT-MS. In this third episode, Dr Perkins describes the application of SIFT-MS to multiple headspace extraction (MHE).
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The SIFT-MS Automation Series, Episode 2: Accelerate Static Headspace Analysis with SIFT-MS

In this webinar, we continue our six-episode series on automation of SIFT-MS. Join our series presenter, Dr Mark Perkins, a global authority in automated SIFT-MS. In this second episode, Dr Perkins provides a practical guide to automated static headspace (SH) analysis with SIFT-MS. You will learn how SH-SIFT-MS can address throughput challenges and simplify analysis of chromatographically challenging species.
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The SIFT-MS Automation Series, Episode 1: Why Automate Analysis?

In this webinar, we start our six-episode series on automation of SIFT-MS. Join our series presenter, Dr Mark Perkins, a global authority in automated SIFT-MS. In this first episode, Dr Perkins answers the important question: Why Automate Analysis?
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Application Note

SIMPLE, RAPID ANALYSIS OF PACKAGING FOR VOLATILE MOSH AND MOAH CONTAMINANTS

Headspace-SIFT-MS can screen over 220 samples per day for volatile MOSH and MOAH compounds – nearly seven-fold more samples than the routine liquid and gas chromatography method.

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A Sensory Expert Shares His Experience with SIFT-MS

We asked Mike McGinley, President, St. Croix Sensory, Inc. about his experience using SIFT-MS.  Hear what he had to say about the speed of analysis and flexibility inherent to Syft's product solutions.

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High-Throughput, Quantitative Analysis of Benzene in Personal Care Products using Headspace-SIFT-MS

SIFT-MS provides rapid, sensitive, and robust analysis of benzene and other contaminants in a wide array of commercial products. Integration with a headspace autosampler enables rapid screening of hundreds of samples per day.

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A Consumer Safety Expert Shares His Experience with SIFT-MS

We asked David Light, CEO and Founder of Valisure, about his experience using SIFT-MS and how it impacted their dry shampoo safety study.  

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Rapid Odor Screening of Paperboard Using Static Headspace-SIFT-MS

Automated SIFT-MS analysis coupled with multivariate statistical analysis provides rapid sensory screening of paperboard packaging, overcoming the low sample throughput of sensory panels.  The ability to use HS-SIFT-MS to achieve throughput of 12 samples per hour is demonstrated.

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Application Note

Syft Tracer: The Next Generation of Volatile Impurities Analysis for Enhanced Workflows

This app note introduces the next generation of SIFT-MS, Syft TracerTM, which launched at Pittcon 2023.  It revolutionizes volatile impurities analysis workflows through unparalleled speed, performance stability, and reproducibility.  Learn about how this innovation to real-time trace gas detection outpaces chromatography-based methods in the analysis of challenging analytes such as formaldehyde in a PEG excipient.

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SIFT-MS: Quantifying the Volatiles You Smell . . . and the Toxics You Don’t

SIFT-MS has been widely applied to quantitative analysis of a broad range of VOCs in applications from food products to workplace safety to environmental monitoring, and most recently to pharmaceutical testing. This review surveys the applications of SIFT-MS in odor analysis and in workplace, environmental and consumer protection, with a particular focus on the complementarity of this real-time mass spectrometry analyzer to sensor technology and conventional laboratory techniques—in particular, gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC/MS).

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The Latest Innovation of Real-Time, High-Throughput Volatile Impurities Analysis by SIFT-MS

Join us for this webinar to learn about Syft Tracer, the latest advancement of real-time, trace gas analysis by SIFT-MS which launched at Pittcon 2023. Hear how the recent product innovations unlock analytical bottlenecks and enable faster decisions to be made in critical process steps.

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Application Note

High Throughput SIFT-MS Analysis of Formaldehyde in Fragrances Using the Method of Standard Additions

This application note describes high throughput analysis of formaldehyde in fragrances that utilizes a method of standard additions to overcome matrix effects from variable headspace compositions of the samples tested.  SIFT-MS delivers >2X faster time to data with up to 5X greater throughput than chromatographic methods. 

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Application Brief: Revolutionary Workflows for Volatile Impurities Analysis

This application brief summarizes a scenario relevant to contract research organization (CRO) and contract drug manufacturing organization (CDMO) laboratories where multiple volatile impurity methods need to be conducted in short runs. Five analyses are considered that can be handled by one Syft Tracer but require multiple legacy, chromatography instruments. For these analyses, SIFT-MS reports the first quantitative results 2- to 12-fold faster, and has sample throughputs 3- to 17-fold higher than the conventional procedures.

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Headspace-SIFT-MS: Flexibility that Revolutionizes Workflows for Diverse Samples

The characteristic flexibility, stability, high throughput, and fast time to data of the Syft Tracer next-gen SIFT-MS instrument apply across multiple headspace approaches for diverse matrices. This application note briefly summarizes the use of (1) dissolution, (2) multiple headspace extraction (MHE), and (3) the method of standard additions, then provides a guide for identifying the appropriate headspace approach for various matrices.

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Whitepaper

Revolutionizing Volatile Impurities Analysis Through Next Gen SIFT-MS

This E-book describes how next gen SIFT-MS enables rapid, continuous screening of toxic volatile impurities in pharmaceutical and consumer products. This advancement to SIFT-MS delivers trace-level detection sensitivity, unparalleled performance stability, superior selectivity, and highly reproducible, quantitative data. Never miss a contamination event again. 

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