QuEChERS

Biochemical Chemical Compounds and Stress Markers in Lettuce upon Exposure to Pathogenic Botrytis cinerea and Fungicides Inhibiting Oxidative Phosphorylation

February 23rd, 2022

Chemical protection of plants is necessary to maximize crop yields.  Consequently, using pesticides can disrupt the concentrations of biochemical compounds in plants and reduce the availability of essential plant nutrients Read More

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UCT QuEChERS Cited in Agro-Industry Article

July 3rd, 2018

In a recent paper published in Food Chemistry by Claudio Alister et al., (oi: https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.foodchem.2018.06.090), A UCT’s QuEChERS blend containing 4 g magnesium sulfate (MgSO4), 0.5 g of disodium citrate (C6H6Na2O7), 0.5 g of trisodium citrate (Na3C6H5O7) and 1 g of sodium chloride (NaCl) was employed in the primary extraction of  pesticides from prunes. In the secondary clean up stage, 1.5 g MgSO4 and 0.25 g of PSA (UCT Selectra®) were used.

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UCT QuEChERS Used for Analysis of Herbicide in Infant Formula

May 15th, 2018

Haloxyfop is a selective herbicide that is used to protect crops such as potatoes and carrots against persistent grasses. In a recent paper authored by Urairat Koesukwiwat et al., (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1007/s0021), the authors developed and validated a simple method for total haloxyfop analysis in infant formula and related ingredient matrices using UCT’s QuEChERS and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). 

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Check out UCT’s new technical article in Chromatography Today, “A Modified QuEChERS Approach for the Extraction of Common Prescription and Illicit Drugs from Liver Prior to LC-MS/MS Analysis.”

March 10th, 2017

Preliminary studies have shown that the QuEChERS technique should be considered as a reliable alternative when extracting multiple drug classes from challenging biological matrices. The project described here, explores a modified universal QuEChERS approach for sample clean-up in post-mortem liver, coupled with LC-MS detection, for the analysis of several common prescription and illicit drugs. Read more here