31 July 2013: Bruker Chemical and Applied Markets (CAM), Fremont, California, US: Bruker is hosting a seminar entitled ‘Multiple Reaction Monitoring for EPA Methods: Improving Data Quality and Workflow in the Environmental Laboratory.’ The seminar will take place on August 6 from 5:30 – 7:00pm in the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio, Texas, and will explore the application of tandem gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) to a range of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) methods. Bruker specialists will demonstrate how advances in GC-MS/MS instrumentation enable laboratories to balance reliable data quality with rapid turnaround time, for maximum productivity. Places are still available for this seminar; click here to register http://bit.ly/BCA557.

The current ‘determinative techniques’ specified by regulatory EPA semi-volatile organic methods are gas chromatography with selective detectors or single quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC-MS); however, many of these methods lack the specificity needed to detect target compounds in complex matrices and require experienced analysts to interpret results. The excellent sensitivity and selectivity of GC-MS/MS techniques can be applied to EPA methods to overcome these issues. This seminar will present examples of the application of GC-MS/MS to various EPA methods in terms of calibration, precision, accuracy and method detection limits (MDLs). Moreover, the seminar will examine how innovations in software from Bruker enable analysts to easily set up complex multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) methods and reliably integrate and quantitate large samples. A unique set of software tools, known as Compound Based Scanning (CBS) and Exception Based Data Review (EBDR), will clearly demonstrate easy set-up of the MRM acquisition parameters of the method and advanced automated peak integration which greatly reduces the need for extensive analyst interaction with the final processed data.

Meredith Conoley, Marketing Director for Bruker CAM, said, “Laboratories engaged in environmental monitoring are constantly challenged by the need for high quality, legally defensible data with a rapid turn-around time from sample to report. At Bruker we have sought to address the priorities of these labs as part of our drive to power the business of quantitation, and in this workshop we are excited to demonstrate how our advances in GC-MS/MS can bring real benefit to environmental reaction monitoring.”