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Pharmaceutical
Fighting Drug Resistance in Colorectal Cancer with a Triple Attack!
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
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Question of the month: March 2020
Our experts answer your burning questions about the world of pharmaceutical testing. This month: do you need impurity reference standards in the same form as that of your API?
Thursday, March 19, 2020
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Question of the month: February 2019
Our experts answer your burning questions about the world of pharmaceutical testing. This month: how do we determine assay values for Mikromol impurity reference standards?
Thursday, February 14, 2019
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API of the month: Granisetron
A highly selective antagonist of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT3) receptors, granisetron hydrochloride competitively blocks the action of serotonin to reduce nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Click through to our blog for a full accounting of possible granisetron impurities and to explore our reference standard range.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
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Question of the month: January 2019
Our experts answer your burning questions about the world of pharmaceutical testing. This month: what process would you follow to develop a liquid chromatography method for organic pharmaceutical impurities?
Monday, January 14, 2019
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Question of the month: November 2018
Our experts answer your burning questions about the world of pharmaceutical testing. This month: what level of characterisation is sufficient for impurity reference standards?
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
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API of the month: Linezolid
Linezolid is a synthetic antibiotic used to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections. Read more to discover more about linezolid's process and degradation impurities and explore our range of reference standards for the linezolid family.
Tuesday, November 06, 2018
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Proficiency Testing
Herb and spice adulteration: new tools in an old war
With high-value products and a complex global supply chain of multiple touch points, spices and herbs are particularly susceptible to potential food fraud. We look at methods to test for herb and spice adulteration, including new secondary identification through NGS, and the reliability of these method.
Thursday, April 23, 2020
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COVID-19 diagnostics: assuring quality in accelerated testing
As the international scientific community comes together to focus on COVID-19 research and development, we look at new diagnostic and treatment trials and explore how to ensure continued quality in an accelerated testing landscape.
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
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Fighting the well-oiled machine of olive oil adulteration
According to the new bulletin of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP), adulteration of extra virgin olive oil is still listed among the most common food frauds worldwide. Olive oil’s distinctive sensory profile and its reputation as a healthy source of dietary fats has made it a premium product, and in turn a target for fraudsters...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
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Beryllium: Be air-aware
Berylliosis, or CBD, is a chronic allergic-type lung response caused by exposure to Beryllium and its compounds: the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified such materials as Category 1 carcinogens.
Monday, November 19, 2018
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Europe's testing toys
Increased regulatory oversight of products sold across Europe looks likely, after inspections highlighted high numbers of unsafe products in circulation, including 58% of electronic devices and 32% of toys.
Thursday, September 06, 2018
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Toying with Trouble
How safe is slime? In the wake of a consumer group's discovery of boron levels up to four times the legal EU limit in some brands of slime toys, join us for a retrospective of past toy safety scandals & history's most dangerous playthings.
Friday, July 20, 2018
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Step up your testing for Diesel Engine Exhaust Emissions (DEEEs)
The following article shares leading insight into assessing the performance of Diesel Engine Exhaust Emissions testing. Sample 16 of AIR PT is available in round AR024 to be dispatched on January 15th 2018. Join the AIR PT scheme now.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
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Product classification: Dairy Cheese or Analogue cheese?
Consumers need to have access to safe and high quality food. Agri-food products of high commercial value such as dairy products, olive oil, honey, meat and fish have traditionally been the target of fraud.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
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Food, beverages and environment
Tenacious and toxic? Exploring the world of chlorinated paraffins
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
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The fallout of ‘forever’ chemicals: the sticky issue of PFAS (part two)
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
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A Brief Guide to Mycotoxins
Mycotoxins, the secondary metabolites of fungi, are naturally occurring toxins that can infect many foods and animal feed. Many of these toxins are also carcinogenic, genotoxic, teratogenic, nephrotoxic and hepatotoxic. With climates changing worldwide, these toxins may present even more of challenge to food safety in the years to come
Friday, June 12, 2020
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The fallout of ‘forever’ chemicals: the sticky issue of PFAS (Part 1)
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
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Terpenes part 2: molecules of mystery and wonder
Along with being a key component in essential oils due to their strong smells, terpenes have a wide range of medicinal uses. In this post we’ll be taking a closer look at the natural properties of terpenes, and how they have been used in healing practices throughout human history.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
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Terpenes: molecules of mystery and wonder
This week we begin our exploration of terpenes – starting with what they are, where they’re found, and their importance to the food & beverage industry.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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Industrials
Analysis of Oils Part 4: Correcting the Boron Drop-out Phenomenon
This week we’re taking a deeper look at our research & development study’s proposed solutions for reducing boron drop-out in working level standards: VHG specially formulated standards and solvents designed for ultimate stability.
Friday, May 15, 2020
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Analysis of Oils Part 3: Oil and Water Do Mix
In this post, we continue our discussion of VHG’s research & development study of boron drop-out, examining the impact of humidity and atmospheric exposure on working level standards.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
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Analysis of Oils – Part 2: Phenomenon of Boron Measurement Instability in ICP Testing
As part of our continuing discussion of the VHG research and development team’s study of boron in oil analysis, we’re looking more closely at the problem labs reported, and the team’s initial corroboration of the issue at hand.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
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Analysis of Oils
In this series of posts we will be taking an in-depth look at a comprehensive study the VHG™ Research and Development team carried out to discover the underlying causes of why some elements (boron, in particular) in organic matrices would start to fail over time – starting with an introduction to the topic and an overview of the importance of boron in petrochemical testing.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
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Sulfur standards helping to improve the quality of your analysis
Sulfur is probably the most common and most well-known petroleum contaminant. A concentration of 0.5% sulfur will make crude oil “sour” which will then require longer refining process and result in more expensive final products.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
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