General Sample Preparation

The Waters 2024 Virtual Summer School - An Educational Journey to Master Food & Environmental Analysis

Unlock the full potential of LC-MS techniques with our immersive and educational sessions at the Waters Virtual F&E Late Summer School 2024. From September 24th to 26th, engage with leading experts and discover cutting-edge methods for environmental and food analysis.

Why attend?

• Comprehensive Learning: Dive deep into advanced LC-MS techniques and gain practical knowledge to enhance your laboratory's analytical capabilities.
• Expert Insights: Learn from industry leaders and gain firsthand experience through detailed modules on chromatography, mass spectrometry, and sample preparation.
• Regulatory Compliance: Stay ahead with the latest insights on EU regulations for PFAS analysis in food and water, ensuring your lab meets stringent standards.

Episode #5: General Sample Preparation | F&E Summer School - Day 2 - Module 1

Sample preparation is a key aspect in the analytical workflow and heavily determines the quality of the analysis. Solid Phase Extraction is a fundamental sample preparation technique widely used across all areas of analytical chemistry. Whether new to SPE or seeking a refresher, this webinar will introduce the basics of sample preparation and provide practical insights and technical background on the benefits when choosing SPE over another form of sample preparation, especially for analytes in complex matrices, such as the ones often encountered in Food and Environmental analysis. Join us in exploring SPE key parameters and best practices for implementing successful SPE methods. The session will combine PowerPoint slides with videos describing good practices and showing a practical example on the complex analysis of PFAS.

Our guest speaker Chiara Sarti from Cranfield University, Bedford UK, will share her research results on the work with new dual layer cartridges to extract PFAS from different environmental samples.

What you'll learn:

• Understanding SPE fundamentals
• Making SPE simple with water-wettable sorbents
• Verifying successful SPE implementation

Presenter: Xavier Rodríguez (Business Development Manager Chemistry Group, Southern Europe, Waters)

Xavier is part of the European Market Development Team. He works as an Application Specialist with focus on sample prep and has more than 20 years of experience in solving sample prep challenges.

Presenter: Chiara Sarti (Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence)