Bruker Introduces the PesticideScreener™ Solution at Food Safety Conference
October 05 2012 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
At the Asilomar Conference for Mass Spectrometry in Food Safety
and Quality, Bruker today launches the high performance, accurate
mass-based PesticideScreener™ solution for multi-residue
analysis as a turnkey approach to accurate and verifiable analysis
of pesticides in food and feed. PesticideScreener is based
on full-scan high resolution accurate mass data for multi-target
screening, confirmation and quantitation to deliver confident and
comprehensive multi-target analysis of pesticides in food in a
single LC-MS run.
Bruker maXis impact UHR-qTOF system.
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Enabling fast and reliable identification of selected compounds
at ppb levels in complex sample matrices, with very low false
positive rates, PesticideScreener identifies compounds based
on combined scoring of mass accuracy, isotopic patterns, retention
times and, optionally, MS/MS qualifier ion fragment data. At the
heart of the PesticideScreener is a high-quality database of
over 700 target pesticides. This database is not merely a “list of
compounds” but includes:
- Retention times for the matched UHPLC
method
- Adduct information
- Isomer information
- Fragment ion information
- Isotopic confirmation
- Qualifier ions for
“one-shot”-confirmation in broad-band MS/MS mode
Processing is completely automated with Bruker’s well
established and comprehensive TargetAnalysis
software, which screens data and delivers simple scoring
against database information for at-a-glance confidence. This
enables fast and reliable identification of selected compounds at
ppb levels, with very low false positive rates even in complex
matrices.
The engine driving PesticideScreener is Bruker’s
revolutionary ultra-high resolution (UHR) bench-top QTOF, the
maXis impact, offering a single no-compromise mode with:
- High resolution AND high speed
simultaneously for coupling to UHPLC
- Unique Full Sensitivity Resolution
(FSR) of greater than 40,000
- One shot method, providing screening
and confirmation in the same run
- Excellent sensitivity, high dynamic
range and mass accuracy, meeting the performance requirements
established in EU protocol SANCO/12495/2011
- True Isotope Pattern (TIP) for ultimate
confidence in molecular formula determination
- High-resolution extracted ion
chromatograms (hrXIC) at +/- 1 mDa.
PesticideScreener has been developed with the sole
purpose of providing food safety laboratories with a confident and
comprehensive multi-target analysis solution. Combining industry
leading UHPLC and UHR-QTOF technology with automated data analysis,
this dedicated turnkey solution delivers outstanding
performance.
Dr. Johan Redeby, at the National Food Administration in
Uppsala, Sweden commented: “Bruker’s PesticideScreener
screening solution is easy-to-use, even for inexperienced,
untrained staff. We are confident with the maXis performance
and are using it for emerging risk screening.”
“PesticideScreener offers food safety laboratories a new
high-performance solution with unprecedented accuracy and
sensitivity on a large, information-rich compound database,” stated
Dr. Carsten Baessmann, Head of Bruker Daltonics ESI Applications
Development. “Our recently launched world-class EVOQ
LC-MS/MS and the award winning SCION GC-MS/MS
triple-quadrupole systems with Compound Based Scanning (CBS)
software significantly simplify MRM methods for routine
quantitative analysis. Together the combination of powerful
software with performance- leading hardware benefits the user by
allowing for rapid, reliable, and confident identification,
confirmation, and quantification of pesticides in any matrix.”
For more information on Pesticide Screener, please go to:
http://www.bdal.com/us/solutions/foodforensics/pesticide-screening/overview.html
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