Consumer Goods VOC Emissions

SIFT-MS facilitates real-time, thorough evaluation of volatile compound emissions from materials.  High-sensitivity, broad-spectrum analysis readily detects impurities in materials and coatings that could impact product safety and/or consumer perception.

Real-time evaluation of residual volatile organic compounds in materials and coatings

VOCs are emitted from most modern materials and coatings. However, conventional test methods cannot monitor time-evolution and suffer from low sample throughput. Additionally, conventional techniques may not analyze all emitted compounds due to the discrimination introduced by chromatographic separation. The toxic small aldehydes, such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, provide a good example of commonly emitted compounds that are difficult to analyze.
SIFT-MS eliminates the slow analysis times of conventional methods, which greatly hinder implementation of more extensive quality control testing. This means that improved quality control can be implemented through the analysis of more samples, at a much lower cost per sample.

For R&D, SIFT-MS provides significant advantages. Enhanced product insights are obtained via time-resolved analyses of emitted volatiles, using automated thermal extraction with inline thermal desorption-SIFT-MS, developed in partnership with GERSTEL. And once again, this includes real-time analysis of chromatographically challenging compounds such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde.

Benefits of SIFT-MS in VOC Emissions Testing

Automated headspace and chamber-scale analysis

High sensitivity and wide linearity range

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

Real-time and high-throughput emissions analysis

Intuitive software and flexible product testing

Comprehensive analysis, including inorganics and chromatographically challenging compounds

VOC Emissions 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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Analysis of Volatile Emissions from Polymers and Paperboard

Food and pharmaceutical products are susceptible to contamination from packaging – whether from polymeric materials, printing inks or paperboard.
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SIFT-MS Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry

Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry Technology Overview

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Application Note

Paperboard Volatiles 3 - Odor Rating

This preliminary evaluation demonstrates that SH-SIFTMS has the ability to provide odor ratings of paperboard samples.

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High-Throughput Analysis of Volatiles in Air, Polymers, Water and Soil, with SIFT-MS

Sample throughput is often a critical bottleneck for analysis of volatiles in the contract testing or research laboratory.
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Simple Determination of Formaldehyde Adsorption by Merino Wool, Using SIFT-MS

Formaldehyde is ubiquitous in the modern built environment, but it is also carcinogenic and so it is desirable to reduce chronic exposure in homes and workplaces. This study demonstrates the ease with which construction materials can be evaluated for their formaldehyde adsorption efficacy, by utilizing direct analysis with selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS). With this
approach, merino wool is shown to be extremely effective in adsorbing formaldehyde from air.

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Syft App Talks #20. Fast and Simple: Quantifying Formaldehyde Adsorption by Merino Wools

Fast and Simple: Quantifying Formaldehyde Adsorption by Merino Wools Dr Vaughan Langford, Principal Scientist – Applications, Syft Technologies, New Zealand Formaldehyde is classified as a known human carcinogen, but is ubiquitous in the modern built environment due to outgassing from a wide variety of construction materials.
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Syft App Talks #17. Time-Resolved Thermal Extraction of Volatiles from Plastic Materials using TD-SIFT-MS

Time-Resolved Thermal Extraction of Volatiles from Plastic Materials using TD-SIFT-MS Dr Christopher Pfaff, Syft Technologies, Germany In recent years, the drive towards safer and more environmentally-friendly products has increased the challenges faced in raw material processing for manufacturers in the automotive, packaging, medical device and consumer products industries.
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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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High Throughput Screening of Recycled HDPE Pellets Using Untargeted Headspace-SIFT-MS-Analysis

Automated headspace-SIFT-MS analysis can classify pelleted recycled HDPE at throughputs over 230 samples per day, offering great potential for rapid screening of recycled packaging materials.

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Rapid Screening of Paperboard For Volatile Leachables Using Static Headspace-SIFT-MS

Automated SIFT-MS analysis rapidly screens paperboard packaging for a wide range of functional groups in a single analysis, assuring that the volatile emissions meet manufacturer specifications.  This application note describes a Headspace-SIFT-MS method with throughput >10X faster than traditional GC/MS methods.

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High-Throughput Quantitative Analysis of Residual Monomer by Using MHE-SIFT-MS to Calibrate Single Headspace Injections

MHE-SIFT-MS provides rapid, matrix-independent, quantitative determination of volatile leachables in polymers and calibrates quantitative analysis based on single headspace injections.  This approach enables over 200 samples per day to be analyzed, delivering rapid and economic analysis of volatile leachables such as residual monomers.

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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 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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Wastewater Odor Analysis by SIFT-MS

In this application note, the performance of SIFT-MS is evaluated for analysis of odors from diverse sources at a modern wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). SIFT-MS provides comprehensive, quantitative profiling of odor sources and can identify operational abnormalities.  In particular, the results presented demonstrate that methyl mercaptan is almost always a more significant odorant at this WWTP than hydrogen sulfide and confirm that the relative abundances of these odorants vary significantly.

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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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Revolutionizing Workflows for Residual Solvents and Volatile Impurities Analyses by SIFT-MS

This webinar demonstrates how the new, automated Syft TracerTM SIFT-MS platform provides a comprehensive solution to workflow challenges and can replace multiple chromatographic systems.  Learn about how combining SIFT-MS with automation provides a very flexible and high throughput solution for screening volatile impurities in pharmaceutical and consumer safety applications, revolutionizing workflows.

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Application Note

Rapid Sensory Analysis of Paper Packaging Using SIFT-MS

This application note demonstrates that SIFT-MS effectively classifies paper samples by odor intensity rating and odor descriptor, in addition to distinguishing paper composition and mill of origin. When integrated with autosamplers, SIFT-MS provides throughputs of over 220 samples per day, supporting significantly enhanced quality assurance compared to conventional human sensory panels and gas chromatography-based analyses.

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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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