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BREWING EXCELLENCE: QUANTITATING OVER 200 PESTICIDES IN BLACK TEA WITH STEADY PERFORMANCE AND MAXIMIZED UPTIME Michael Rothaupt Agilent Technologies, Basel, Switzerland

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HIGHLY EFFICIENT LC-MS/MS ANALYSIS OF ORGANOPHOSPHOROUS PESTICIDES UTILIZING ARC-18 COLUMN SELECTIVITY WITH INERT COLUMN TECHNOLOGY Tina Brandscher1, Hansjörg Majer2, Paul Connolly2, Diego Lopez2 1Restek GmbH, Bad Homburg von der Höhe, Germany 2Restek Corporation, Bellefonte, United States

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ENHANCED LONGEVITY AND REVOLUTIONIZED ROBUSTNESS FOR SENSITIVE DETECTION OF 190 PESTICIDES OVER 800 INJECTIONS WITH NOVEL HES 2.0 SOURCE Michael Rothaupt Agilent Technologies, BZ, Basel, Switzerland

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MOVING TO NITROGEN AS COLLISION GAS FOR TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY, PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR MULTI RESIDUE PESTICIDE ANALYSIS Stuart Adams, Peter Hancock Waters Corporation, Wilmslow, United Kingdom

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DEMONSTRATING IMPROVEMENTS TO A MULTI-RESIDUE PESTICIDE WORKFLOW WITH FOOD QC MATERIALS Stuart Adams, Peter Hancock Waters Corporation, Wilmslow, United Kingdom

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PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF HELIUM AND HYDROGEN CARRIER GASES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PESTICIDES USING GC-MS/MS Joerg Riener Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany

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NOVEL TRIPLE QUAD APPROACHES FOR RELIABLE AND SENSITIVE QUANTIFICATION OF A LARGE NUMBER OF PESTICIDES IN A SINGLE RUN Alexandre Verdu1, Javier Lopez2, Miguel Perez2, Arnd Ingendoh3 1Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co KG, Paris, France 2Bruker Espagnol, Madrid, Spain 3Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co KG, Bremen, Germany

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INVESTIGATING A NITROGEN-ONLY SYSTEM FOR GC-MS/MS FOR PESTICIDE RESIDUE ANALYSIS IN FOOD David Gould1, Peter Hancock1, Stuart Adams1, Doug Stevens2 1Waters Corporation, Wilmslow, United Kingdom 2Waters Corporation, Milford, United States

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DETERMINATION OF CHLORATE, PERCHLORATE AND BROMATE IN FOOD COMMODITIES USING A NOVEL MIXED MODE REVERSED-PHASE ANIONIC EXCHANGE COLUMN David Gould, Ofure Idialu, Peter Hancock, Eimear Trivedi, Euan Ross Waters Corporation, Wilmslow, United Kingdom

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ETHYLENE OXIDE AND 2-CHLOROETHANOL IN FOOD: AN OVERVIEW OF RESULTS OBTAINED FROM PROFICIENCY-TESTS Sabrina Hellali, Caterina Mazzoni, Anne Tirard, Abdelkader BOUBETRA BIPEA – Bureau InterProfessionnel d’Etudes Analytiques, Scientific & Technical Department, Paris, France