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This webinar focuses on case studies that demonstrate simple analysis of chromatographically challenging compounds. Formaldehyde receives special attention, as it is important across a wide range of industries (from environmental to pharmaceutical testing). The formaldehyde case study also includes validation of an unconventional analytical method in compliance with ICH Q2(R1) guidelines for regulatory submission.

Learn how you can adopt direct mass spectrometry in your routine analysis workflow.  Adaptation of routine procedures and techniques to automated SIFT-MS will be illustrated with case studies applicable to environmental, consumer product and biomedical laboratory testing. In particular, a head-to-head comparison of GC/MS and SIFT-MS for headspace analysis of volatiles in blood plasma will be described.

This webinar demonstrates the advantages of applying automated SIFT-MS to volatile compound analysis in diverse matrices: from air to the headspace of polymer, soil or water samples. SIFT-MS is not simply advantageous for throughput reasons; it can also support faster method optimization for conventional methods. We include example data and case studies from a range of application areas ranging from pharmaceutical to environmental analysis.

In this Syft Tech Talk, Dr. Vaughan Langford introduces the ion-molecule chemistry utilized in SIFT-MS instrumentation. This highly controlled, ultra-soft chemical ionization approach enables SIFT-MS instruments to comprehensively analyze samples with high specificity in real-time.

Syft Technologies’ SIFT-MS instruments quantify volatile compounds in air or headspace in real time… but how do they do it?  Vaughan Langford describes how quantitation direct from the SIFT-MS compound library is performed in Syft Technologies' instruments.

In this webinar, we cover:

• The chemical ionization used in SIFT-MS, and how it provides both selectivity and detection of chemically diverse compounds (including ammonia, formaldehyde, and hydrogen sulfide)
• SIFT-MS quantitation, which is based on ion-molecule reactions, conferring long-term measurement stability and library-based quantitation

This webinar introduces SIFT-MS and explains the rationale behind seamlessly integrating thermal desorption (TD) with SIFT-MS.  In short, the benefits of coupling TD and SIFT-MS are economic distributed sampling (such as for US EPA Method 325) and much higher throughput for an industry-standard sampling media.

SIFT-MS provides direct, rapid sample analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with no or minimal sample prep required. When coupled with autosampler technology, SIFT-MS yields very high sample throughput (in excess of 100 samples per hour), including for challenging compounds like ammonia, formaldehyde and hydrogen sulfide.  Learn how this direct mass spec technology serves a range of industries, from environmental analysis to food testing to pharma.

In this webinar, we demonstrate the advantages of using automated SIFT-MS to analyze volatiles in diverse matrices: from air samples to the headspace of polymers, soil and water samples. Formaldehyde and the BTEX compounds (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and the xylenes) will be utilized in various case studies. In addition, high-throughput thermal desorption-SIFT-MS and real-time thermal extraction-SIFT-MS are presented for the first time.

The power of SIFT-MS for measuring volatiles can be harnessed in a number of different ways in the food industry. For example, SIFT-MS has applications in consumer perception of food flavor, determining causes of food spoilage, detecting food adulteration and identifying the origin of food products. Using case studies on the analysis of fruit juice, cheese, honey and garlic, Professor Barringer discusses these applications.

SIFT-MS is a revolutionary direct analysis technology for fast, sensitive, selective and robust analysis of flavor compounds in air or headspace at trace levels. 

In this webinar, we introduce the SIFT-MS technique and a variety of food and flavor applications, including:

• Headspace and in vivo flavor analysis

• Process monitoring

• Sensory screening

• Packaging testing

In this webinar, we describe the benefits of SIFT-MS for flavor analysis using various application examples:

• Flavor development during processing of tomato, mango and cocoa
• Enzymatic flavor generation in fresh tomatoes and strawberries
• In vivo assessment of “garlic breath” deodorization