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Achieving Worldwide Compliance in Dioxins and POPs Analysis
Setting the gold standard in dioxins and POPs analysis
Concerns over food and feed export safety, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), as well as environmental contamination, have grown rapidly in the last decade, resulting in stringent regulatory oversight. The Thermo Scientific DFS Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS is a double focusing system that enables regulatory compliance with any governmental dioxins, PCB, or PBDE method, whether based in the U.S., E.U., or Japan. Make the choice that has already earned the trust of the analytical community: For quantitative and routine analysis of dioxins and POPs, the DFS Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS continues to set the gold standard in providing ultimate confidence, superior performance, and robustness.
Meet with the team at NofaLab Laboratories (Rotterdam), and learn how they decreased their turnaround time for customers using the dioxin analysis workflow with the DFS Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS.
Regulations and analytical methods
Due to their toxicity and prevalence in the environment, dioxins, furans, and PCBs are subject to worldwide regulations. These regulations are based on risk assessments of dioxins, furans, and PCBs, of which several have been conducted at both the international (e.g., WHO (JECFA)) and European (e.g., EFSA) levels.
Scientific experts have critically examined published toxicological studies of individual PCBs, PCDDs, and PCDFs that were assessed using different animal species. These expert groups sought to identify the level at which no adverse toxicological effect is evidenced in animals. To achieve this goal, the most sensitive measurement technology currently available- namely, GC/MS- was used.
Magnetic Sector High Resolution GC/MS has been employed for more than two decades in food and environmental testing and is therefore considered to be the “gold standard” in this field. This is especially true for the challenging analysis of dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs), which requires high sensitivity and accuracy, as well as the ability to identify these contaminants in complex sample types such as soil.
| Application | Norm | DFS Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS |
|---|---|---|
| Food | EU Regulatory Feed Control (at ML) | Approved |
| Food | EN 16215 (EU Method) | Approved |
| Food | Background food studies (<1/5th EU ML) | Recommended by EURL |
| Clinical | Human studies at trace levels | Recommended by EURL |
| Environmental | EN 1948 | Approved |
| Environmental | US EPA 1613 B for strict EPA compliance | Approved |
| Environmental | US EPA Method 23 | Approved |
| Environmental | US EPA Method 8290 | Approved |
| Environmental | US EPA Method 1699 | Approved |
| Environmental | US EPA Method 1698 | Approved |
| Environmental | JIS K0311 (Japan Method) | Approved |
| Environmental | JIS K0312 (Japan Method) | Approved |
Browse our collection of dioxins and POPs analysis videos
A visit to NofaLab LaboratoriesMeet with the team at NofaLab Laboratories (Rotterdam), where the team explains their dioxin analysis workflow with Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS and how important is fast turnaround time for their customers.
Interview with Marcel Bruggeman - NofaLab LaboratoriesListen to Marcel explaining how fast turnaround for dioxin analysis is attracting more customers to NofaLab Laboratories
Interview with Jeroen Markesteijn - NofaLab LaboratoriesListen to Jeroen explaining how important is anaytical throughput combined with compliance for dioxin analysis
Achieving Worldwide Compliance Supported by Software. The Thermo Scientific DFS Software PackageRoutine quantifications of POPs are important. The DFS Software Package includes automated features supporting full compliant routine quantifications of POPs, with the automation required to meet your lab needs.
How does a Magnetic Sector work for Dioxin and POPs analysis?Discover how a Magnetic Sector system enables you to perform routine quantifications being compliant.
An Interview with David Hope, Pacific Rim Inc. Vancouver, CanadaListen to David Hope as he describes how his lab could get almost doubled results with the DualData XL of the DFS Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS
An Interview with Patrick Pond, Pacific Rim Inc. Vancouver, CanadaListen to Patrick Pond as he describes how the DFS Magnetic Sector GC-HRMS supports the Dioxin and POPs workflow in his lab
A Deeper Look into the Life of a Dioxins and POPs Lab: Tips from the ExpertsDavid Hope, an internationally renowned expert in POPs analysis will explain what are the factors, which make a Dioxin and POPs laboratory a success.
Karl Petitt presentation - Dioxin Conference 2016 Thermo Scientific DFS GC-HRMS DualData XL applied to a routine labKarl Petitt presents Dioxins and POPs analyses and results of an high throughput lab employing the Thermo Scientific DFS GC-HRMS DualData XL
Dioxins! Hunting the Great WhiteJef Focant explains the applications and developments for the analysis of Dioxins and POPs. Video taken at Dioxin Conference 2016.
How the DFS Magnetic Sector works
A magnetic field (in a "magnetic sector analyzer") separates ions according to their momentum (the product of their mass times their velocity). To understand how the force exerted by a magnetic field can be used to separate ions according to their mass, let us imagine that we have a bowling ball and a feather moving by us (both move at the same velocity). If we blow on the two objects in a direction perpendicular to the path of the objects, the feather will be deflected away from its path because it has a smaller mass (momentum), but the bowling ball, with its larger mass (momentum) will continue to move in its original path.
