Our recent Application Note: "Achieving Low-Level Detection of Benzene in Beverages with an Automated Headspace Vial Sampler" and accompanying webinar “Benzene in Beverages - How Low Can We Go” brought many thoughts to mind (to view Benzene Analysis resources and the webinar, please click the button at the bottom of this blog). Foremost was that I knew next to nothing about Benzene, how it could end up in my soft drink, and what potential health effects it might have. I remembered vaguely hearing about it in my childhood. My general conception was that there was nothing good about it. Being myself a wary food consumer (you’ll find me reading the back panels of food boxes in the grocery store), this was a subject for my inner food skeptic. What I discovered was not nearly as straight forward as I had presumed.
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Purge and Trap Concentrator,
Atomx,
VOC,
Headspace,
HT3,
Versa,
Benzene,
Beverage Analysis
Excitement abounds in the Teledyne Tekmar labs as the Versa headspace autosampler continues to meet the challenges of an ever-changing environmental science world. Its big brother, the HT3, started this excitement when it successfully met the challenge to detect low levels of 1,4-dioxane, bromoform, acrylonitrile and vinyl chloride in water following new environmental guidance from Korea and the Asian market.
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VOC,
Teledyne Tekmar,
Volatile Organic Compounds,
Analytical Instrumentation,
Autosampler,
Analyzer,
Headspace,
HT3,
Versa,
1 4-dioxane,
bromoform,
acrylonitrile,
vinyl chloride,
VPH
The US EPA hosted a technical workshop on analytical chemical methods for hydraulic fracturing on February 25th in Research Triangle Park, NC. The goal of these workshops is to gather together stakeholders, technical experts, and EPA representatives to get updates on the progress of the EPA’s testing with regards to hydraulic fracturing. It also serves as a forum to discuss best testing practices and methodologies for this area. Teledyne Tekmar was privileged to participate as a speaker and participant in the round table panel discussions that coincided with the workshop.
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VOC,
Teledyne Tekmar,
Sample Preparation,
Volatile Organic Compounds,
drinking water,
chromatography,
Hydraulic Fracturing,
Fracking,
Analytical Instrumentation,
Concentrator,
Autosampler,
Analyzer
Automated sample preparation is built upon making instruments easier to use, faster, and more efficient. More recent features to purge and trap systems like mass flow controllers and variable volume standard addition, give more method flexibility than legacy products. The 27 mL syringe on our Atomx VOC sample prep system allows for dilution of high level samples as well as automated methanol extractions.
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VOC,
Teledyne Tekmar,
GRO,
Gasoline Range Organics,
Sample Preparation,
Volatile Organic Compounds
The Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Program (UCMR3) recently announced a new rule that requires public drinking water facilities to collect data on roughly 30 contaminants from January 2013 through December 2015. For the VOC portion of this rule, seven (down from the original nine) were selected for analysis by US EPA Method 524.3, using selective ion monitoring (SIM) to reach MRLs as low as 0.03 µg/L.
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VOC,
drinking water,
US EPA Method 524.3,
Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Program,
UCMR3,
selective ion monitoring,
SIM
