Chromatography Quiz #32: I’m not seeing any peaks! Carbamates edition – RESULTS

Pickering Labs would like to congratulate all of our winners for our previous newsletter’s I’m not seeing any peaks! Carbamates edition Quiz: Jim Balk from Nebraska Public Health Environmental Lab, Josiah Hakala from Minnesota Department of Health, Narjes Ghafoori from LA County Environmental Toxicology Lab, Tom Schneider from Suffolk County Water Authority, and Jiufeng Fan from Glaxo Smith Kline.

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The correct answers for the “I’m not seeing any peaks!” Carbamates edition quiz:

The reactor temperature was set too low. In normal operation, the reactor temperature should be set to 100 °C for proper post-column reaction completion. The incomplete reaction will give you low response for all analytes except Carbaryl and 1-Naphthol. Carbaryl becomes 1-Naphthol after the first step in the post-column reaction and 1-Naphthol is naturally fluorescent and does not require the OPA reaction.

Chromatography Quiz 33 – What the Brij?!?

Correctly answer the question below and win a prize!  Simply email your answer and your full contact information to Rebecca at rlsmith@pickeringlabs.com by November 1, 2019 in order to win.  You will receive email confirmation when your submission is received, and the troubleshooting answer and winner congratulations will be published in the next issue (to be anonymous, please notify Rebecca in submission). 

Below you will find the method details for the Fumonisins method. What is the purpose of adding 30% Brij to the post-column derivatizing reagent?

(Full method abstract(s) available on our website.)